Medallions specially are used in several large US cities. Transferable licenses are used in a great many other places. Non-transferable licenses in almost all of the rest of the world. Sanctioned taxis are highly regulated even in places that are otherwise quite dangerous.
I’m not sure you know how taxis work
Maybe. Every time I used a taxi it was a random person I gave money when I arrived at the destination.
There’s still a central dispatching service the vast, vast majority of the time.
Not to mention the medallion system which has government oversight of drivers.
Is that a thing outside of New York?
Medallions specially are used in several large US cities. Transferable licenses are used in a great many other places. Non-transferable licenses in almost all of the rest of the world. Sanctioned taxis are highly regulated even in places that are otherwise quite dangerous.
A legal taxi driver, or a clandestine one?
I understand an argument against middlemen, but your argument ain’t cutting it.