Most of the public preferred the Karsan. Unfortunately, most people aren\'t politically connected.

With the exception of the wheelchair accessibility and maybe the WiFi it looks like a good cab.
EVs and electric hybrids are vastly overpriced junk. although a flywheel, hydraulic, or pneumatic hybrid system would be good.

Every decision in new york city since it was founded has involved payoffs, schemes, and fatcat politicians. I was astounded when the Karsan prototype was ignored, maybe cities like Orlando, Las Vegas, and LA will see the light and begin using either the ford or the karsan, sure the numbers needed would be less but multi city fleets would more than make up the numbers for either automaker to flourish. During the competition i just couldn\'t see the benefit of the Nissan over the two better alternatives. As for ADA compliance (laws that meet the needs for the disabled) I would like seeing a new federal requirement for half of every taxi fleet meeting wheelchair needs. The disabled are certainly entitled to public transportation, but one of every two taxis would seem sufficient to me.

That none but the Karsan would be built in this country should have been enough. It\'s a shame that Ford wouldn\'t want to create a few jobs here in the USA. My vote was for Karsan.

I admit ignorance of the whole project - the lack of wheel chair access is bullshit etc.
BUT for what it is, I actually really like it.
ROOMY - tons of storage space - HIGH ceiling, LOTS of leg room.... BIG doorways...
It\'s NO GOOD without wheel chair access - not at all - and it tells you what a scheming pack of incompetent bastards the $ecret $election committee are.....
But for a personal car - I actually really like it - because being tall - I hate cramped vehicles.

The average NYC taxi ride is 2.5 miles.... reason enough for cruise control. Brillant!

I don\'t understand why in the biggest cityes of the world are not introduced only electric vehicles for taxi. The favor to disabilities persons matters a lot, but they can introduce some litte cars for taxi, because there are many cases when only one person with no lugage wants to go from A to B, quicly! We\'d better take example from germans with theire stupid colours for \"euro\" and restricted acces?

Why mandate a specific vehicle as an official taxi? Why not adopt ALL THREE and let capitalism fight it out? Heck, why not just adopt a paint pattern specification and let the CAB COMPANIES decide what they want to use?

Death by Committee....
Probably studied NASCAR\'s \"Car of Tomorrow\" extensively...
When Richard Petty first proposed the Car of Tomorrow, it was impressive and worthwhile.
What was finally built 20+ years later was not. Only the name remained.
This is similar in that, other than the name, it is nothing but an off-the-shelf existing minivan with slight modifications.
There are dealerships that offer these kinds of mods as one-offs.
This could be ordered in a day and production could be started well within a month.
If this is all they offered, they should have been delivered YESTERDAY-
about 3 years ago...

Meh. One more reason not to be as impressed with New York as they are with themselves. Shame they weren\'t thinking about accessible transportation though - ramps are nice for more than just wheelchair users, as any public transit worker can tell you. Looks like NY got caught with its pants down... again.