Why have so few innovative taxi-based services developed in UK?

1. Attitudes of the Taxi Trade

The taxi trade is a wide and diverse constituency, and includes many small one-vehicle owners who tend to be set in their ways and may lack the entrepreneurial skills to go beyond the standard business model.  Other parts (especially the more unionised Hackney operators in larger cities) have traditionally distinguished themselves from Public Service Vehicle (PSV) operators running buses by their opposition to separate fares and any concept of...