Until fairly recently taxis in Malaysia had the dubious reputation of being the worst in Asia. The authorities decided this was not a Good Thing, so introduced a number of measures;  a customer hotline, rules about using meters, etc. We heard about one passenger who reported a driver for refusing to switch on the meter – 4 days later he was informed that the driver had been suspended for 3 months. (Then, of course, our public-spirited passenger felt bad, because he hadn’t wanted the errant driver’s livelihood to be endangered… isn’t life complicated?)

We use taxis a lot in KL, and haven’t had any problems. Of course taxi drivers have rules for their passengers too. Wear your seat belt, don’t smoke, don’t bring durian into the cab…

And, Definitely, No Canoodling.