The phrase "accept hails" is not commonly used in written English and may be considered awkward or unclear.
It could be used in contexts related to receiving greetings or acknowledgments, particularly in nautical or gaming terminology.
Example: "The captain instructed the crew to accept hails from other ships as they navigated through the busy harbor."
Alternatives: "receive greetings" or "acknowledge calls".
In New York, however, it runs only with town cars (limousines), which cannot accept hails in the street, rather than the city's yellow cabs.Uber has chosen the route of competition rather than co-operation with local cabbies and taxi firms.
Livery drivers who try to make ends meet by picking up passengers on the street -- a violation, since only yellow cabs may legally accept hails -- say they have been refusing more people in hardscrabble neighborhoods in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Some 85-95% of those accepted hail from state school backgrounds.
Known as "Voitures de Tourisme avec Chauffeurs," or V.T.C.s, the cars can be reserved in advance by passengers but, much like livery cabs in New York City, do not display a taxi light and cannot accept street hails.
Furnished with roof lights,meters and credit card readers, the green taxis are not allowed to accept street hails in parts of Manhattan (south of East 96th Street and West 110th Street) or at the city's airports.
As part of the plan, cabs would also be allowed to pick up multiple fares and livery cabs would be able to accept people hailing them on the streets, which they are now prohibited from doing.
Because the call-in service works well, he said, he forbids his drivers from accepting street hails.
(These cars would still be barred from accepting street hails until they received approval from the taxi commission).
The cabs are prohibited from accepting street hails south of East 96th Street and West 110th Street in Manhattan, as well as at the city's airports.
Cabbies will earn points for accepting "e-hails" when demand is at its peak and work is easy to find on the street; the highest scorers will have priority when work is scarce.
First his school in Kalamata, the same seaside city in the Western Peloponnese where the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hails from, refused to accept his letter of resignation.
