Taxi tablets with mobile apps to launch in New York City

Move over Uber and Lyft, taxi companies in New York City are getting outfitted with interior tablets that give passengers control over the content they view.

For the past nine years, Big Apple taxi passengers have been seated behind a terminal that churned out repetitive videos, advertisements and messages that have been the subject of numerous complaints to the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, according to Ad Age.

Now, three companies have licenses to develop taxi entertainment systems for New York City’s nearly 13,600 taxis.

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