The screens could pad drivers' incomes, but similar ones in the city's fleet of cabs have for years annoyed passengers.
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The screens might be annoying for riders, but for-hire vehicle drivers see them as a way to pad their income. The City Council in December passed a law requiring the TLC to allow them in Ubers and Lyfts, and the measure requires 25% of the revenue brought in by any advertisement displayed on an in-car screen to go straight to the vehicle’s driver.
“The money from the one tablet … is so small that I cannot even take my girlfriend out for a good dinner,” Lama griped. “Why would you make this the one place in America where people can't get tips through tablets?” asked Andrew Greenplatt, policy director for the Independent Drivers Guild.
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