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Hi everybody
I am looking for a short phrase to define the service of prividing a chauffeur to drive a car if the owner of the car is drunk or for some reason unable to drive himself/herself (it's a kind of taxi service). Is it OK to use the phrase "car shuttle" or "shuttle drive"? Is it understandable?
Thank you in advance
Irina
Shuttle Service.
In American English, we call a sober person who is doing the driving for a drunk person, or people, a designated driver.
That so :?: In the UK a shuttle service goes backwards and forwards between two fixed points - not unlike shuttle in a loom. Students may not know what this is.They (shuttles) move quite fast, so there hard to see while they're moving. You'll catch a glimpse of one going back and forth in this video, at about 2'23"-2'26": HowStuffWorks Videos "Industrial Revelations: Impact of the Loom"Quote:
Originally Posted by susiedqq
We have 'designated drivers' in Br Eng too. Most pubs offer free soft drinks to the designated driver in a group.
Sometimes a hotel/sporting event/car mechanic will provide a 'courtesy car', but often there's no driver - the car's just a replacement. But the players at Wimbledon, for example, have courtesy cars.
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PS There's a shot of a stationery shuttle in the same video at 0'06"
Irina.
As in other countries the common term in Australia is "designated driver", the person in a group who agrees not to drink, but there are also several businesses offering the sort of service you describe, they have names like Dial-a-Driver and Co-Drivers. I might suggest (not very seriously) Teetotal Taxi – I just Googled this and found a reference to Muslim cabbies not allowing alcohol in their cars in Minnesota, and a 1960s taxi service in Ireland well known for carrying sailors back to their ship. It looks like the name is available. 8–)
not a teacher