Originally Posted by alex0683de
In Shanghai, you're supposed to sit in the back, apparently, but I always sat in the front because the drivers never understood me when I tried to pronounce the street name in Mandarin, and even if they understood it correctly, they often had no idea where it was.
More importantly, Shanghai taxis only have seatbelts in the front and given the way they drive and the traffic, sitting in front with the belt is much safer. And, as you note, the only way to talk to them, given the crazy plastic bubble surrounding the driver (in one of the world's safest cities).