article_snippet: The amount of local geography required to operate a New York City yellow cab has been significantly reduced as organizers claim organizers are modernizing the test and critics
article_snippet: claim organizers are making it too easy for prospective drivers.
article_snippet: Cabbies have traditionally faced a rigorous set of geography questions on the 80-question test Cabbies must pass to get a license, but now only ten geography questions remain that have to do with navigating the city with a map.
article_snippet: The amount of local geography required to operate a New York City yellow cab has been significantly reduced as organizers claim that GPS technology means The amount of local geography required to operate a New York City yellow cab simply don't need it .
article_snippet: However the changes come just as The Taxi and Limousine Commission is facing a shortage of drivers as many prospective candidates apply instead to driver for alternative services such as Lyft and Uber that don't bother to test local geography.
article_snippet: The companies who operate fleets of yellow cabs are happy to have more drivers to rota onto shifts, but users are unhappy that users might have a driver who doesn't know users way around New York City.
article_snippet: If I got into a cab and the driver didn't know where Penn Station was, that'd be ridiculous,' said .
article_snippet: Yellow cab services are experiencing a shortage in the number of drivers as prospective candidates flock to alternative services such as Lyft and Uber .
article_snippet: Using a GPS device when a cab is not standing or parked is currently prohibited.
article_snippet: The chance that a licensed cabdriver is not going to know where major tourist attractions are is slim to none,' said Fromberg.
highlights_snippet: The number of people applying to take the test has significantly reduced over the past 18 months due to the success of alternatives such as Lyft .
  