Insane Japanese Taxi Driver REFUSES To Cooperate 

Imagine being a taxi driver in Japan who doesn't really know Japanese, isn't very familiar with the roads, isn't very good with technology, doesn't have very good sense of direction, and isn't very good at driving. Literally no way he could be less qualified.

"I'm sure it's fine, he'll get me there." At some point, this changed from self reassurance into outright denial.

That man did not have a license, or if he did, he was determined to get it revoked.

once my family booked an uber to take us to the airport - never before was I so scared for my life in a car. this guy missed the exit on the highway, then came to a complete stop and reversed back to the exit - ON A HIGHWAY. the only time in my whole life that I gave an uber driver a poor rating, reported him, and of course got the "sorry for almost dying here's a $5 coupon" from uber lol

This guys sounds like he's learning how to drive and just got the job after a few months of driving. Unprofessionalism at its best.

It's so crazy listening to this from a male perspective cause I'm pretty sure any woman would think they were being kidnapped or something. It's insane that he stayed in the car for that long I would've found an excuse to leave so fast lmao

If the driver doesn't know Japanese, I think it's highly possible the driver is from China, is new to driving in Japan and is not used to right hand drive. That explains the fear of driving out from a parallel parked position and also the fear of doing turns into traffic. Probably not instinctively used to it yet.

Connor got the IRL Crazy Taxi experience.

Non native taxi drivers in Japan: afraid to drive non native taxi drivers in America: red means go, red means turn left in front of oncoming traffic, speed limits are speed minimums

People shouldn't rush to judgment about anything, but damn doesn't life just give you all the counter-evidence at once.

Ah Connor this sounds incredibly frustrating. Hope you're doing good, you looking good! 😄

A cab driver did a similar thing with me, I think either he didn't know how to use the app or just didn't want to pay the Uber commission. In India, a lot of drivers just use the app to get customers, then cancel the ride after they find you to avoid doing the transaction through the app.

I’ve only had one driver who was crappy like and more in personality. Like I nicely pointed out the best way to get to my place near the end of the drive and I could clearly hear an attitude from her voice when she replied to me. Other than that I’ve had nice rides. One guy suggested a buffet place I can go to whenever as the one I wanted to go to had closed down some time back. Another waited for me when I had to quickly run back into the mall as I accidentally left behind the bag that contained my Switch (thankfully that was being held on to for me by the employees at Foot Locker). Multiple have helped me put in the many bags of groceries I got (I do grocery shopping for my dad whenever he can’t) and will also help me unload them or wait till I got everything out before leaving. Those ones definitely get the biggest tip possible. Heck one guy even discounted the price of his ride because of how long it would take him to get to me. (which only happened because the other guy I was assigned to bailed about halfway into his drive to me despite him being closer)

He's like the luckiest unlucky person ever. Having something like this or the cellphone incident every other day is about right for Connor 😂

What we learns kids? Never be a taxi driver unless you know what you're doing

you can probably can a refund if you are using a credit card. most credit card system give you that kind of "protection". you basically call your credit card company or go to their site to dispute the charge.

One of the best stories on Trash Taste in a while.

I love how the thumbnail is the most professional taxi driver possible in anime.

but what conner didn't realize is that he just survived an assassination attempt from agent 47 who purposefully drove so abysmally bad that you would doubt humans are even capable of doing so especially doing so on purpose

Taxi Driver has major trust issues on everything including himself

Always love when you guys post : )

I live in a kinda awkward spot and my home FOR SOME REASON has the same number of another one in the same road, except the postcode. Everytime I would tell the drivers "oh is this post code, it's on the south side of this road, please do not take the northern route" and EVERY TIME THEY WOULD FUCK IT UP. The ONE time the guy got it right was because I showed him my phone and told him where to turn for like 3 times.

I had a minor incident in Japan while using a taxi app. The driver wasn't using an app/smartphone nor knew the destination but I've already paid for the ride. He was dispatched through the comms and was only told to go to the pick up point and that the ride was already paid for in advance. A few weeks later I tried the same taxi company through the app and now only allowed cash. On a separate note, I tried to get a cab through the app and failed multiple times consecutively and was only able to get one by giving a phone call.

XD man Connor I was a bit stressed listening to this. Its always when you need things to be timely, things find a way to get messed up. The closest experience I had to this wasn't from a cab It was middle school bus driver. I attended art club and how it worked in my situation with after school activities is the bus drivers have a list of students names, and address who attend these things so they can dropped home. There were roughly 6 people on bus dropping people off one by one, and then we get to me, The driver doesn't move for a minute, turns to me and goes, I don't know how to get here. And I was so confused, didn't expect this I never had a bus driver no know how to take me home. It took a while of explaining, and few wrong turns later, He does get me home safe but I wasn't ready for that at all.

I'm sure that 90% of all Uber rides go off without a hitch, but it seems that whenever they they fuck up, they fuck up HARD. I have never called on a single Uber for anything, and I don't intend for that to change any time soon.

He was probably over worked and not running on a full tank. It can almost be like the person is psychotic when they run on no sleep.

Got in an uber once and the guy went in the total opposite direction. Like we were going to the east side of the city and he started driving west. It got to the point of after telling him like 3 time that I think he was going the wrong was to "turn round now or let me out"

I love those situations of "What happens now?"

maybe someone stole that car. since you arrived to it first without a driver. lol

So I never believed the stereotype that Chinese people are bad drivers until I moved to a suburb that is predominantly chinese. I work in a small shop in the area and I see car accidents nearly every day and it's always a chinese driver. We had one crash into the back of our shop because he decided to reverse his car from a parking spot and 50+ km/h. Not trying to be racist btw it's just something I see so often.

Connor and Pete are the best story tellers.

This could've ended up horribly, next time you see someone messing with anything THAT much while driving ... just get out ASAP! xD

At a work party we took an Uber back between Newcastle and Sunderland, he kept clipping the curb and at lights he stopped on the other side of the lights and driving inches away from the car in front.

Congrats, Mr. Taxi Driver. You are now a topic in the Trash Taste Podcast

I could never 💀💀 I'll try to be understanding most of the time unless I've a reason to worry about my life, health, or sleep. Then I'll be as rude as I can be. There's a hard line I draw when it comes to being kind.

connor gets a ride on fake taxi

Sounds like he volunteered to help his friend but he actually inept, like 'Hey, I can help you with that (I actually can't, but I am trying to be a good guy, also the money seems nice)'

OMG 😱 I've never been in a taxi but I've experienced people in front of me driving so slow even though it's not the speed limit. They're probably on the phone or something and it's annoying. This taxi driver probably had no clue what he was doing 🤣

Are y’all doing another figure special?

You know what may have happened is sometimes people will steal a driver's information so they and or their family members can sign up and then all they do is drive using this person's information but they link a person they know who has a bank account. So they don't have license insurance nothing

At that point he should taken the wheel or just gtfo.

This sounds like a feverdream

Dame my dude

This story gave me anxiety

I would have just brought up Google maps, pointed at the estimated time for travel. And the second he was five minutes over I'd get out and walk.

I heard from another yt channel that talks about China that there is not a "traditional" right of way for cars, in fact it is kind of backwards and if you're on the main road you are kind of expected to give way. This sounds like it happened to this taxi driver

That's why I always schedule stuff so that I get at least 1 hour in advance at the venue. Even when I'm driving.

- doesn't know japanese - unfamiliar with the roads - can't use technology "I think he's Chinese" _ahhhh now it's all making sense_ I don't wanna be racist but I am. living in shanghai and interacting with the didi drivers contextualized this experience for me. Yea no that checks out. If you know, you know.

He probably just got his license

This is why busses exist connor.

He could be a released convict from the 90s. Like what if the guy was a hashiriya from the 90s, got 30 years and now has to relearn how to drive around on top of learning how to use a smartphone and Connor is just witness to these strange circumstances.

if he is Chinese, it might be because in China you drive on the right side of the road compared to china and the UK its on the other side so he might have been nervous but still have no idea how he got a license

I don’t normally take taxis even in America, but I had to on my last trip to japan because we’d gotten so lost trying to get to our ryokan in Kanazawa. It was a THING and I was already mentally fried by the time we even found a taxi. The ride started out fine, except that he was watching sumo wrestling on a dash-mounted tv. He missed his turn, so he literally stopped the car and put it in reverse to go like 100 yds back to the turn. He then got lost, so he stopped the counter and drove to a gas station to get directions. I was astounded he was a professional 😅 we eventually got to our ryokan.

Idk how he got the job, taxis driving in every other country is hard to get you have to be really knowledgeable on the roads and stuff.

great story

I had an old man taxi driver pull out his magnifying glass to look at MY map, when I had the address clearly typed in my hands, and it was a 10 min journey.

Surely Baki's dad was not at walking pace so the GPS couldn't track the driver right. Surely.

Thought they were talking about the anime

Didn't Connor say the driver is a Chinese? The app 滴滴(Didi) is Chinese. It was even once traded on NYSE but now only traded in OTC market because Chinese government forced it to quit US market for 'information security' reason. How do I know this? Because I am a Chinese :( Now I guess you guys get the key takeaway from Connor's story. 'Di' is not even a regularly used phoneme in Japanese. They have to type ディ which is only used in Gairaigo like Disneyland (ディズニーランド). So they designed something like King Dedede which is デデデ but they would never design a character named dididi(ディディディ). The title should be Insane Chinese Taxi Driver in Japan REFUSES to Cooperate. Oh also the pictures showing the traffics are wrong I guess. It is on the left in Japan. Maybe the editor of this video is from US. And also in China it is on the right like in US. I guess Didi pulled him from China to drive in Japan because the cost of labor could be cheaper (or Japanese drivers are not willing to be hired by a Chinese company). And since things are reversed this guy is not used to drive on the left. And driving in China is... I would say very reckless compared to US and Japan. Drivers in US are very nice especially in small towns and rural area. So avoid the snake oil next time. Just use Uber.

Connor lookin good 😳

guy also sounds like he might've been high as a kite

call the Cops!

In india you used to get fined for cnacelling Uber rides so drivers would just sit and waste people's time for no reason whatsoever. Now they take longer routes to hike up the price. Always glance at Google maps to see the best routes now n then..

This could ONLY happen to Connor XD

That guy was hired to make connor mis his shoot

Sounds like it would have been faster on foot

What a painful story. Lol.

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this is exactly why I always use the mainstream taxis. xD The ones waiting for you at the metro station type of mainstream

Always had issues with Didi or GO taxi in Tokyo. Uber is the best by far.

they ask you twenty questions because it's Tokyo. The building can be huge, but have the same address. Or maybe you want to be drop off on the side because there is a no stopping zone. Or it's a rainy day and there is cover on a certain section of the street or something.

My favourite story connors bizarre adventures.

Try being a taxi driver in Paris... it isn't that easy...

The gig economy in a nutshell.

Anime in the thumbnail is Odd Taxi Awesome chill yet intriguing mystery if ya guys wanna check it out

How dare u use Chadokawa as thumbnail when ur talking about a bad taxi driver

If he is from china, that explains pretty much all of this. I just learned about the difference in driving from the comments, but ALSO: until 2020, china didn't even have "GPS". Like, actually. They didn't use the same satellites as the universal GPS network, so their GPS equivalent wasn't complete until the final satellite launch in 2020 (they use their own network called "beidou" which started development in the Soviet era). I'm not sure about its reliability today, but I hear that it was definitely not reliable for quite awhile. This also means their government wouldn't allow anyone except specifically licensed companies to take location data to make map systems. It seems like it was a mess, maybe still is. So I can understand why he wouldn't use GPS... But that being said, if he's going to run that way, why is he a taxi driver if he doesn't know the roads perfectly.

Next time if you need to be somewhere on time and it's important, don't cheap out on a real taxi in favor of an Uber.

Never let them know your next move 💯

Just use Uber.

The most sain taxi drive

I can say, I’m a far better driver

Misleading title. The driver wasn't even Japanese, he was chinese.

Moral of the story: never ever use Didi.

Didi is a chinese apps. Why dont use GOtaxi? Almost every taxi is running on go taxi apps

It sounds like a scam tbh not trying to be negative. If you canceled or you didn't make it to the car in time and it canceled he would still get paid. Sounds like a huge scam! He was also thinking if it may have been a longer ride he would get paid more. He was so nervous you showed up to the car he ended it on an accident.

haha i was better when i had my first lesson.

Man the company that hired this guy really dropped the ball when it came to being sure he was qualified.

Hopefully he hasn't gotten someone killed with his incompetence

He's probably used to driving on the right. No?

Are actual Taxi drivers more professional than these app drivers in Japan?

Is there no public transport in your area? No subway, no train, no bus? Edit: guess I should've listened up to the end. Still think public transport is the better option, unless you're transporting large objects or have exceptionally heavy and awkward bags. The subways and trains keep to a very strict timetable and it's easy to plan around them. You can also actually trust Google Maps directions and timetables in Japan.

didi might be a Chinese app.

Connor just get your own car in Japan we know you need to redeem yourself for the drift special

Ah I've heard of workers like these. Basically these guys are cheap labour hired by black companies. Put in tiny dormitories, given uniforms and given a crash course in Japanese (which is often inadequate to near useless). And then... they have to pay back the company with below minimum wage and ungodly hours. These guys are often cleaners, konbini staffers, garbage men, factory workers, nursing home carers and I guess taxi drivers of very fking sus non-union app-based taxi services.

It's time for Connor to have a driving license and rent his own vehicle.

Why he use didi and not Uber lmfao

So TLDR.. taxis in Japan are not ideal transportation for otakus 😆

Schizophrenia is one hell of a disease

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