If you want to sign up for a new job as a taxi driver then head to the Downtown Cab Co. depot in East Vinewood, on the corner of Tangerine Street and Mirror Park Boulevard. Some enterprising GTA Online roleplayers had already set up their own taxi cab businesses before this official version was dreamed up by Rockstar. One of the best known of these is Tony Moretti’s Famiglia Cab Company on the game’s New Day roleplay server, a surprisingly honest living for a game that regularly runs community contests to see how many billions of dollars players can steal. I like to think of myself as a diligent and respectful driver IRL. In GTA, though, I’ve always been bloody awful at manipulating a steering wheel. Pavements? Mount them without meaning too. Corners? Overshoot, and either smack into a building or another vehicle. Overtaking? More like scraping along the sides of other cars as they honk madly at me like angry swans. Yes, I get that GTA’s a crime simulator and you’re not meant to abide by road law. I’ll just feel way less guilty about ignoring that now I can be a taxi driver, and concentrate on getting my fares where they need to be. GTA Online’s included in GTA 5, which you can find on Steam and the Epic Games Store for £25/$30/€30. More details about starting a career as a Los Santos taxi driver are here.
