Yeah, what does it matter if you get shanked and robbed if you're saving thousands of dollars a year?
Yeah this car is insane, you culdn`t pay me enough to get into one of those. I drove a NYC cab for about a year a few years ago in between jobs and anyone who drives one without a partition is insane.
Just as an example, I had one guy I picked up one morning (about 4am) who once he got in I knew something was wrong..I just had a feeling, you just get this vibe...I asked him where he wanted to go and he said "Fordham"..so I said Fordham what? Fordham ave Bronx? and he didn`t answer me.
I just knew what was coming next and sure enough as soon as I hit a stop light he said "hey" and I turn around and I`m facing a bag. The guy had a bag over his fist pointing right at my head and before I even blinked BAM I slammed the partion closed, put the car in park and ran the hell out of there to a bus across the street yelling at the bus driver to call the cops. The guy then jumped out of my cab and ran down the street.
If I didn`t have a partition or that partition was opened a little bit more than it was, god knows what the hell he could have done to me. For these idiots to put out cabs without partitions is idiocy at it`s height. They`re doing nothing more than gambling with the lives of drivers.