I was surprised the other day to street-hail a taxi in London (near Piccadilly Circus), of all places, and find the driver using a GPS to figure out where we were going and how to get there. "Knowing the city without needing a GPS" is probably a feature I would pick a product on, but it seems to me it's not reliable anywhere any more.
Lyft and Uber both let me set my destination in the app and send that to the driver's phone, but regardless of service, these days I'll tend to tell the driver how to get there if it's a city I'm familiar with.
Most London cabbies are very proud of "the knowledge", so I wonder if your driver had a GPS to tell him about traffic conditions rather than the route?
