A study of the seat choice, front or back, of single adult taxi passengers was carried out in Sweden. No sex differences in sear choice were observed, unlike an earlier Australian study which yielded large sex differences in major cities where male, but not female, solo taxi passengers exhibited a strong preference for the front seat. In both countries, female taxi drivers were a small proportion of all taxi drivers observed.
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