Did you know:
That taxis are essential to our mobility?
That taxis are important contributors to our economy?
That taxis are essential to social cohesion?
That taxis are a very safe mode of transport?
What to take the taxi reduces traffic congestion?
That taxis help us reduce our ecological footprint?
That 80% of people who take the taxi are highly satisfied?
TAXI IN THE FRENCH SOCIETY
Because of being in daily contact with all types of individuals, coming from all socio-professional categories, the taxi driver is regularly confronted through his clientele to the whole palette of states of mind of the human race. Like other professions (factors, doctors, traders, craftsmen ...), this quasi-permanent exhibition presents a physical, material, cultural, social, emotional, psychological and financial character by conferring on the taxi driver an informal status of " Authentic social witness. This is all the more true given that "making the taxi is a street job or the one who practices it is directly exposed to all sorts of situations, from the most comical and unexpected to the most perilous and dramatic. The range is very wide and it is enough to take the time to discuss it with a driver to realize it and thus enter the universe at the same time truculent, colorful and incredible anecdotes (comical or pathetic) inevitably enamelled This career.
Indeed, who can be daily as much to alternate with the hurried and irascible client, the pregnant woman in emergency, the jealous husband, the busy businessman, the merry traveler, the sick to carry out consultation, the toddler recover At the school, the lover-in-law, the soldier on leave, the VIP in a jiffy, the over-excited supporter, or the tired party-girl? The skewer is wide and a day of taxi often represents an unguided tour of the gallery of portraits of a society, a context and an era. It is even possible to speak of "concentrated human adventure" or "journey to the center of society" from the corner of the street and at random races!
As such and beyond appearances, we consider that the driver does not merely convey individuals from one point to another. He does much more, for he briefly shares, in this way and in spite of himself, genuine (short) human stories as concrete, diverse and varied as the others. It does not only transport people, it also moves slices of life!