Japan’s Transport Ministry has abolished the requirement for taxi drivers to show their identify and {photograph} of their automobiles, native media reported on Monday.
The transfer, aimed toward stopping the posting of taxi drivers’ private info on-line, is to make sure a secure work surroundings for drivers and ease the labor scarcity within the transportation trade, Xinhua news company quoted public broadcaster NHK as saying.
Taxi drivers used to must show their photograph ID to indicate that they’re the authorised driver and never an impostor.
But there have been circumstances when dissatisfied passengers took an image of the driving force’s ID card with out permission and uploaded it to a social networking web site, mentioned the NHK report.
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