The Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be home to the annual Electric Daisy Carnival this June. The festival features music, food, dancing, performance art, as well as the main attraction: exuberant light shows including giant lit-up flowers from which the festivities derive their name. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway is located 16 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, a distance that is farther than the average 8-10 miles from the strip that most cab drivers commute passengers.

The Electric Daisy Carnival is estimated to host a large number of performers, vendors, and attendees: approximately 100,000 people for all three nights that it is open from June 20th through June 22nd. A larger amount of people are expected to attend this year's festivities as opposed to previous years. This is in-part due to a higher number of tickets allocated to Carnival operators to sell. In order to help with transporting attendees from the hotels on the strip to-and-from the festival, the Nevada Taxicab Authority voted to allow 12 license plates - known as 'medallions' - to the 16 taxicab companies that operate in the Clark County area. 12 medallions per company is the largest allocation received by the Nevada Taxicab Authority, who usually give companies less than 10 medallions for special events.

The Nevada Taxicab Authority's members explained their reasoning behind allocating more taxis as being in service of customers. Each taxi that transports people to-or-from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is carrying only one group of passengers for an estimated 40-50 minutes, allowing less taxicabs for other festival attendees as well as those traveling around the Las Vegas Strip area. Also in support of the additional taxicabs are business owners; extra taxicabs mean more potential-customers traveling around both the Las Vegas Strip and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway areas.

While the Nevada Taxicab Authority and businesses may have been unanimous on voting to allocate these medallions to taxicab companies, not all taxicab drivers are sold on the idea. More taxicabs running means that rides are in less of a demand, which means unwanted downtime may befall drivers during the 10-hour length of the Electric Daisy Carnival's daily 10-hour duration. However, if the expected number of attendees show up, which looks likely due to a sell-out of admission tickets, then drivers have little to worry about, even if there are a few more taxicabs on the road.