Taxi is one of the most important transportation vehicles in China. Different from the United State, the rate of car owner divide by the population in China has a huge different than the United States.
The vehicles for hiring were first appeared in England. In the early eighteenth century, a rich man will hire a cabriolet when he plans to have a tour. People use the abbreviate word “cab” as the vehicles for hiring. The most common cause of “Taxi-car” was a story in a spring evening in 1906. Aron went to see a opera with his girlfriends, and when he went back home, the driver of carriage let he spend ten times of normal fees. So that Aron had conflict with the driver because he don’t want to pay that much. Finally, he got hurt by the driver. When he recovers from hunt, he asked a watchmaker friend to make a count machine to cars and want to make “Taxi-car” to instead of the carriage.
Chinese people mostly use bicycles, bus or taxi as transportation. The huge population make it is impossible to allow everyone has their own cars. So that taxi becomes much important as the population grows. During the busy hours, the buses are always full and taxi becomes very popular. You can see so many people stand on sides of the street and looking for an empty taxi. However, the taxies are always full.
In the United States, taxi is an expansive transportation. Mostly be found in huge cities, train station or airfield. People need to plan or to call for a taxi in most places. In my opinion, that because of the expansive manpower fee and the huge percentage of car owner in the United States.
Thus, the taxi in China is a very important vehicle and I believe it will become much important in the future, because the population explosion is a huge problem that hardly be solved.
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