In 2016 council scrapped long-standing training requirements for taxi drivers when it revamped regulations to respond to Uber’s arrival on Toronto’s streets. The courses would be mandatory for drivers working for both app-based ride-hailing services and conventional taxi companies, and would go into effect next year. “We won’t really know what all of this looks like until it’s been finalized by committee and council.”She agreed that defensive driving training should happen in-car, not via video. After the training standards were removed for taxi drivers three years ago, Hubbard said Beck implemented its own mandatory one-week training, offered in partnership with Centennial College, including in-car defensive driving training. There are roughly 90,400 drivers working for ride-hailing services in the city, although some drive occasionally or for limited periods of time.

Source: thestar June 18, 2019 00:11 UTC