After Bob Simon of CBS Snooze was killed in a similar way, you have to wonder how well the cabs in NYC are staffed.
New York Taxi drivers make around 90K/Year. The drivers are almost all foreign born, and a lot of them are arab and muslim. The cabs are in poor to moderate condition on average, and the hygiene of the drivers came with them from their home countries. Most of them ignore the laws of the cab like picking up bx/bk/nj fare, and talking on their cell phones. The drivers do NOT own their own vehicles and are assigned a random car each day, so they are driving the car for the first time every day. They work 24 hour shifts, and 48 off. It’s a complete, utter mess.
Hard to tell since most of them don’t speak English.