{"id":30754,"date":"2025-07-01T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30754\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:26:16","slug":"heres-how-much-it-cost-us-to-take-a-yellow-taxi-3000-miles-from-new-york-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30754\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s How Much It Cost Us To Take A Yellow Taxi 3000 Miles From New York To Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hopefully, you\u2019ve all been following the saga of the $800, 375,000-mile ex-NYC taxi that we pulled out of a Copart yard, where it was leaking every possible fluid (I think somehow there was actual bile in there, even) and was so neglected and filthy that it had a biohazard sticker on it. It was a basket case. But a bunch of us here at the Autopian pulled our time and skills and resources and superstitious rituals together and got this thing not just running again, but able to drive all the way across the freaking continent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just one part of the story! Driving a once-effectively-dead NYC taxi across country just because is certainly\u00a0plenty\u00a0of reason to do that, but we actually had another reason, a\u00a0scientific\u00a0reason, because we had a question we wanted to answer, and the only actual way to\u00a0get\u00a0an answer was to just actually\u00a0do it,\u00a0and doing it meant driving across the country.<\/p>\n

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The question was a simple one, one a child might ask, but not a childish question: how much would it cost to take a NYC Taxi all the way across the country<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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And by all the way across, I mean from New York all the way to Los Angeles, a full coast-to-coast run. Actually, we did even more, as I drove the taxi from Chapel Hill, NC to New York, but we\u2019ll include that as a separate callout when we reveal the Total Cost, which I promise we\u2019ll get to soon.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, it doesn\u2019t actually seem that anyone has done this before, which surprises me. But also delights me, as I would be proud to have driven the definitive NY-LA taxi run.<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s get into how our taxi fare was computed. We wanted to go by the book, which in this case is the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, who has this complex set of rules<\/a> for how taxi fares are calculated:<\/p>\n