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Following complaints from some cabbies about racy ads on their vehicles, New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission agreed on Thursday to give more drivers veto power over them. A new regulation prevents owners of yellow-taxi medallions, who lease the right to operate taxis to the drivers, from installing ads the taxicab owner "reasonably" deems inappropriate. (It doesn't apply to drivers who lease the cabs themselves, as well as the medallions.) Mostly at issue are strip-club and liquor ads, which are ubiquitous on NYC cabs—and have prompted outrage for a long time.
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