GPS eyed in drive to nail meter-cheating cabbies
NEW YORK CITY — Crooked cabbies trying to pull off the same massive meter scam as ex-driver Wasid Khalid Cheema — who holds the record rip-off crown — could soon find themselves tripped up by GPS technology.
Cheema’s taxi license was revoked last month after the Taxi and Limousine Commission determined he overcharged 574 passengers in a single month simply by changing the setting on his meter from the in-city rate to the higher suburban rate.
That one little switch duped riders into paying double what they should have — until one became suspicious and filed a complaint.
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