Question: are checker cabs still used?
Answer: '' Other cities still have Checker cabs, the bulbous vehicles with the ponderous 1950's design. ... There are companies called Checker Cab, even if their cars are Dodges and Fords. But since production at the plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., ceased in 1982, 60 years after it began, the Checkers have been a dying breed.