Secret Gadget – Japan’s Taxis Sport Anticrime Device

NYC taxi drivers are sure to line up to add this feature to their taxis. SF drivers, too.

An Osaka taxi company has installed anticrime devices in their taxis.

When a perpetrator in the back seat makes his move, the driver can push a button *(kind of like a clerk in a bank) and;

1. the horn starts blowing (this is a big thing as Japanese seldom use their horns)

2. a light above the rearview mirror comes on and shines into the back seat

3. an SOS signal is sent to the dispatch center

4. the roof light begins to blink red (which passers by can ignore…or not.)

Japan is safe. So it is said. A lot has to do with Japan’s inept police force not being able to solve so many crimes that most people just don’t report a crime.

Taxi!!

Ah, and yet another reason why mile for mile, Japan’s taxis are the most expensive form of transportation on the planet.