White card (taxi)
A white card (Chinese: 白牌) is a citizen-owned automobile in Hong Kong used as an illegal unlicensed taxi. The term is a reference to fake taxi licenses.
History
White cards have been used since the 1950s, when there was a shortage of public transportation.[1] In the 1950s, Hong Kong taxis were limited in numbers. People started their own illegal businesses, and operated without any licenses or government regulation.
gollark: I'm more worried about poorly programmed applications using 32 bit time for some stupid reason.
gollark: Did you know? Time ends on 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038 and began on 01/01/1970 CE!
gollark: 2039, after the apocalypse.
gollark: Hmm, so you're suggesting that the problem is monolithic design more generally?
gollark: I mean, I can `pacman -Syu` and have stuff work without rebooting. Except kernel updates, for which I can do `kexec`.
References
- "The construction of Hong Kong". 广州市地方志馆 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.