TOKYO, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Japan’s transport ministry has abolished the requirement for taxi drivers to show their identify and {photograph} of their autos, native media reported on Monday.
The transfer, geared 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 business, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Taxi drivers used to should show their photograph ID to point out that they’re the approved 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 report.
Passengers will nonetheless be capable to establish a car by the driving force quantity or the receipt in the event that they left one thing behind and have to contact the operator, it added.