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Uber’s difficulties present black cabs with an opportunity that’s unlikely to be repeated soon. But it will require a change of attitude. Rather than thinking they can just drive Uber off the road and continue their current practices unchanged, they will need to look at modernising the licensing and regulatory regime and getting rid of artificial restrictions on numbers. If they do this then black cabs could recover a significant share of the market.