Is Hyundai Telling Porkies, Or Is It Auto Blog???....Why Are They Referring To Their Helicopter As A Flying Taxi? And No Their Heliport Is Not Unique In The UK.

    

It's not an Urban-Airport for flying Taxis....its just another Heliport and they are not flying Taxis, they are just helicopters.

What will Hyundai call their new air transport system, if and when it comes to London?

They won’t be able to call them Taxis in any shape or form, as here in London, the words Taxi, Taxis, Cab and Cabs are protected under legislation in the private hire vehicles act 1998 section 31 subsection (2). 

Perhaps they will use their generic name of helicopters. 

Talking about generics, that’s the standard reply to any complaint to the BBC, when they refer to private hire cars as Taxis. They say they are referring to the vehicles using their generic name and this, believe it or not, has never been challenged by any of our three representative associations or three unions.

Recently the BBC was pulled up by thousands of complaints (mainly from run of the mill cabbies) complaining on line when the Beeb referred to Uber as a Taxi. They were embarrassed in the fact that the lady in their video had actually referred to a vehicle as an Uber not a minicab or private hire vehicle. The complainers stated they had no right to change the text of what the lady had said in the title. 

The Beeb conceded and not only changed the title of the piece, they also removed the bit where the lady said it’s safer than a bus or an Uber....referring to a journey she’d under taken on a cargo bike.

The PR spin has already started though, with Hyundai saying that they have just launched the first ever UK Urban-airport for flying Taxis in the city of Coventry. 

This is not true.... as here in London -where these flying machines are rightly referred to as Helicopters- we’ve had a number of Urban-Airports for flying machines going back over 50 years. The first dedicated Heliport -Battersea being the most famous- opened on the 23rd of April 1959.