Talking about Private Taxis and Clone Taxis in Shanghai Hi, everybody. Today, I want to talk about private taxis and clone taxis in Shanghai with you. There are a few private taxis in Shanghai whose license plates number start with "沪BX" and "沪DX". Difference from general taxis, owners of the private taxis buy the cars and the license plates himself. It is said that a private text license plate’s price is 500,000 RMB yuan($80,000). The taxi company can’t supervise the private taxis due to the car and the license plate belong to the driver. It is high chance that the Private taxis will deliberately go the wrong way and the driver can get more taxi fee. So, you had better not take the private taxi. What’s worse, in Shanghai, there are some clone taxis what actually are fake taxis and repacked from discarded taxis. The driver of clone taxi usually change customer’s traffic card with empty card. If the customer refuse to pay fee, the driver will lock the door. If the customer call police in the car, the driver will driver very fast and let the customer can’t tell police this car’s location on the phone. You know, it is very dangerous. I want to talk about this subject because of I took a clone taxi yesterday. It let me pay more money due to its modified taximeter. I hate them.