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by the_duke 3586 days ago
Good point.

In Vienna (Austria), taxi drivers had to pass a pretty tough exam which required intimate knowledge of the cities streets.

A good driver still makes a difference in the age of GPS, because you can often safe quite some time by avoiding certain points of congestion and factoring in traffic.

But with GPS that incorporates (live) traffic data, the additional value is a lot smaller.