NYC Taxis Explained

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Why does NYC have yellow, green & black taxis? The answer is a mix of history, politics and economics. And emoji. || First video! Thanks for watching!! What should we learn about next? || Expand for more fascinating taxi stuff from my sources... - "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cab Driver" (awesome book) - Graham Hodges - - "2014 NYC Taxicab Factbook" - NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission - http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/statistics.shtml - 24 hours of taxi fares, visualized - http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/visualizing-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-new-york-city-cab/ - "NYC Taxi Viz" - Map at 2:58 - http://www.nyctaxiviz.com/for-riders.html - "Taxi Dreams" multimedia site - PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/taxidreams/ FACT-CHECKING FINE PRINT: - Turns out the photo at 0:49 and 1:08 is of a taxi driver in DC... whelp, that's a little embarrassing. - The 35,000 figure for black cars lumps together 25K "For-Hire Vehicles" and 10K "Black Cars," two distinct TLC vehicle categories with different rules and regulations. I see them as generally interchangeable, at least for the purposes of this video. Whew.