overcoming divisions save the date for the d. w. global media forum 2023 in bonn, germany and increasingly fragmented world with a growing number of voices, digitally amplified. we see where this clutter can lead what we really need, overcoming divisions into vision for tomorrow's journalism. save the date and join us for this discussion. at the 16th edition of d, w. c, global media forum london's iconic black cabs get an electric transformation. buses and cro knock evolved to go driver free and trans racing driver charlie martin on how embracing her authentic self helped her excel right now. been red

with the black cat. london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically with half of the all caps were the noisy and on that they usually mean that this would come put your cramp up the she so she moved, obviously utilizing poke thing, it got 0 me change. i still managed to retain the, the iconic look about it. this is probably one of the most recognized vehicles in the world. exactly like the black runabouts that dotted the london cities for over a century. ah,

the best of the old traditions, but merit with new technology holds a special place in, in the hearts of many people. peter powell has driven a cab in london for 27 years and he loves his job. is quite unique wordy because you're in charge of your show for the saw him. you you got the freedom to go out to work to shoot your life. stop driving through london and one of those iconic black tabs is special. even today we retain the tradition of the band, the black cap, we've always been voted the, the best taxi service in the world. the traditions with i'm wanting to. busy throughout the taxes are like, as in all i come,

not the all rich found boxes in the bushes. despite his love of tradition, peter is happy that he swapped his diesel cat for an electric one. as smooth is and i comfortable it is a, it takes a lot of stress out of your day that this is so smooth region bry kinda makes it lovely as smooth or everything. the whole world experience. you fantastic. only the see the company that now builds the electric cans in a new factory near coventry has shaped the london taxi trade since 19 o. 8. using the technical underpinnings of an austin. they developed the boxy body variance of the theme to london cats. the f explore introduced in 1958 was the company's most popular model and on all its successes had been based

on but the 2080 mission regulations for central london sounded the death knell for the cult diesel powered taxi. but eli b. c reacted fast with a completely new edi production line, supported by chinese car maker dealy. project manager, lloyd bonsa and his team developed an electric london taxi bringing the venerable british icon into the future. we continue to invest in the taxi product to make it the best taxi in the world and the world's only purposely design taxi. it's not a vehicle that's converted from a van or from a cow from a minibus. it's the only vehicle in the world that is designed with a clean sheet of paper to meets the requirements of being a taxi, the london conditions of fitness, ah,

some of the most stringent taxi regulations in the world. and the new electric model, the t ax traces, it's dna back to the effects from 1958. we've kept the look the same, so things like the proportions around the headlights, the grill. keeping that very, that very traditional look. and we've kept that on the new t x, the round, circular headlights, that quite are up front stately grill, the proportions along the side of the vehicle. the the long bonnets. we have plants swooping roof line at the back of the vehicle. and then inside. we've kept the concept of the interior much the same in london keeping the well being of passengers in mind is mandatory to london's requirements are very strict in terms of the vehicle length, the vehicle width,

but there's also requirements for it to be wheelchair accessible. london was one of the 1st cities in the world to make will chair accessibility mandatory on taxes in, in 1989. so we have to be able to fit a wheelchair. the has to be a ramp for the wheel chair. there's a step. these regulations are very, very restrictive. great importance is also attached to comfort there's a requirement for the minimum distance between the seats. so that this space for people to sit facing each other. and there has to be a sufficient head room, the folk glories that that was put in place because of people with, with top hat, some bowler hats to be able to get in. and a car that transports passengers in the british capital also has to be right out there in terms of technology. london requirements are very strict at the turning

circle. so how far we can, we can turn around in the road, how quickly we can do that. the turning circle is 8.8 meters turning circle, and that's because of the turning points at the savoy hotel. savoy hotel has a very, very tight entry on into savoy co. we come in on the right hand side as opposed to the left is the only drought in k we supposed to draw on one of well water. right? this is the yeah, this is i deal with the taxi is ideal for this because you got 24 with 30 circle and a concierge here will probably wanna let you out. the latest regulation that affects the taxi trade in london. only cars with emission free power trains can now be

registered for passenger transport, which has had a huge influence on the black caps. where we see the biggest changes are underneath the bonnet. and if we look on the old vehicle, we see there are 4 cylinder, diesel, and gym. very much share of very much of its time in the, in the late eighty's. ah, but quite noisy, quite rapidly. i'm not a very good customer experience compared to what we have now in new t x. where under the bonnet is everything to generate electricity. a small fuel based range extender can charge the battery if necessary. the 110 kilowatt electric motor is built directly into the rear axle in order to keep the tow vehicle center of gravity as low as possible. the batteries are tucked away in the floor panels and the entire body is made of aluminum. the individual components are not riveted

or welded, but rather glued together in a complex process. it's a bonded alum indian chassis, which originally comes from the aircraft industry. so plains like the airbus a 320 a built this way. on top of that, we put composite panels, i'm and to get the, the, the expertise in that type of a body design. and we ended up with engineers who, with experience in formula one, another motor sports to come in and help design an engineer the product. and the engineers also managed to build a huge glass roof into the aluminum body. this allows passengers to get to know the city even better. a london cappy often doubles as a tour guide the the amory arch value. where

the admiral, which a huge debate i saw the building, i left her a huge hotel. i loved the golf. absolutely love it. you go to what see. so the chocolate hiking pitches all the time, subs on there, so that i can, i am and i'm a little low until they're fed up. oh, guy randal di ah, there are currently 6500 t x models from l e v. c on the road in london. and almost half of all london cats are now electric. the battery capacity is enough for a 130 kilometers or the equivalent of 8 hours of stop and go traffic loading the battery to 80 percent out of fast charger takes half an hour. but being forced to take those breaks doesn't bother peter powell at all when cling the k. yeah, i so i deal with given the what down i read very,

very high. be for the die. i 1st shot in driving say of one of these very 1st i honor i was going to bar one of i quite a few tracks is all 27 years in his job. even though did she do a very up to the vehicle? it's iconic retinas, iconic looked like we need to keep that, like when it built the electric london cab. a great example of how british tradition lives. ellen and motors the mission free, and innovatively into the future. ah ah, it's 9 am and kronos. oh,

and christina and her son is ready to get her unusual bus on the road. ah, emerson, morgan is i'm abilene warning. we have to do one really without any passengers to see if the technology works. and if, if there is a construction site somewhere or something unusual on the route where we have to say ok to day, we can't do this kind of in, or you have to be careful here level. so don dog broke off this autonomy bus does a lot on its own driving breaking, accelerating it precisely follows a virtual blue line. each round trip is 3 kilometers through kona locals, tourists. everyone's getting on board in a city. bus service is also available, but it only stops at the main tourist location, the rosen back fortress, 4 times a day. the steep climb can be tough for some people enter the autonomous shuttle

which runs all day and is a welcome compliment to public transport. just like in the town of pope, we're a shuttle runs from the train station to the city center straight through the pedestrian zone. and re how a tiny bus shuttles back and forth between a production sites. factory and offices on a freeway feeder road with heavy traffic operators are still on board for now, but that's supposed to change some day. it can only happen if the buses are absolutely safe. a 3 the laser 1st scanned the entire route, roads, walls and buildings were recorded as a cloud of points, a digital image of the vehicles environment down to the centimeter. the best route was then calculated. this is the blue line

stored in the buses, memory lasers on the roof scan the surroundings for up to 100 meters. as it moves, the laser beams are reflected, allowing the boss to calculate its current position. software checks the position against the stored route. any deviation is immediately corrected. i am. the boss remains precisely on the blue line. something in the way the bus comes to a halt. yes, the leon? yeah. oh thea. oh, here's the line where it would automatically pull into the stop on. it's only this hour, this is where the car is. so it would collide one dia, it stops and wait for the obstacle to move. this hinden is 15 that i can use the

controller to steer the shuttle around and then into the bus stop. on the end, on the handy, i visually fossil us. but how safe is the bus if an obstacle suddenly gets in its way to laser beams, scan the surroundings 50 times a 2nd. they recognize things that are too close. the bus reacts immediately no moment of shot, thanks to the sensors. m. you have slept fur is responsible for the development of the safety equipment. he thinks autonomy shuttles will become a reality within the next 5 years. he has high hopes align in georgia. we have around $3000.00 traffic deaths in germany every year. in 90 percent of the result of human error technology has the potential to eliminate. most of the 90 percent higher than 90 percent sorted with the sensors are being constantly improved. the

goal is that some day an operator can monitor and guide the shuttles remotely. if this plan gets approved, the buses will then be entirely autonomous. oh boy, i figured out how it's gonna take my life. i'd say myself in the mirror and i just realized i don't even have any connection with the press to stand back any more or support a living shall not living here growing up. there were 3 things there. charlie martin with convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify as meal the gender she'd been assigned in both. the 2nd, the place she felt most at home was the race track. the time that she'd never be able to reconcile these to world. i am

charlie martin, i'm a professional racing driver. i'm in l g b t t plus activist. i'm hope to be the 1st trans driver at the 24 hours of lamar. i growing up feeling very limited because knowing that i was transgender from a young age, i never had new role models growing up. i'd never seen anyone like me doing anything the i spied to stay. and that had the effect of making me feel very limited in terms of my life options. carolyn, cause he was the 1st person that i discovered his transgender. and i up until that point i didn't realize people could be born as one gender feel that they are i identifies as different gender and then they can actually physically transition and, and so and so on. so when i saw her,

it was like some one telling me world isn't flat, you know, i can have really a real eureka moment in my life. when i was about 89 years old, i had a friend called hamish and his dad used to race, not professionally, but i'm, you know, very competitively at club level. and he said, yeah, you know, we're going racing if you'd come, i never actually been to racetrack and especially being in the paddock with all the cars, being surrounded by, by with these calls. it's very, yeah. it's a very kind of intoxicating smell. being in the environment, you know, the caster lauren and just to the noise and do something about it. they just yeah, just let a real spark of enthusiasm in me. i said, year let's university. i made up my mind. this is it. i'm going to try and do some,

some racing myself, but this persia to a 5 was like a half finished project at a row cage had a 16 valve and jane. but that was, it was like, had 4 wheels at no doors on a. it was a like with everything was stripped out of it, but it was something i could afford. the 1st thing i did like she was a sprint, a cobra. but nonetheless, i was there. i was can be saying, doing my to sport under my own state. and that was a great feeling ah, coming into period does when i started to struggle very struggle with my my gender identity and i would wake up in the morning and see myself in the mirror. and i just realized, yeah, i don't, i don't even have any connection with the person staring back at me anymore at nothing in my life really matter to me any more cuz it's just like, well,

what's the point living? she's not living with you. i figured out how it's gonna take my life and i couldn't, i, you know, i was at a point where i just couldn't even function. you know, i could barely get through the day. i slept breaking down. um and i thought to myself, this is this wrong, i can't do this. and that was january 2012 that i, i decided okay, this is it. i'm going to transition a se transition was the thing that i wanted most in my life. and yet, at the same time, it was the scariest thing could imagine it was this, you know, it was like this huge mountain. the i was terrified of confronting. and i think it might sport,

and i just thought no one's going. sat me in that space. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to give up when dressing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved hormone d placement therapy and surgery. she returned to a race track for the 1st time. wharton's powder was like scary thing, i can imagine. i had sat in my car, amanda sat, my car in the car park to thinking will i'd have to do this to go home. no one never knows. fortunately, 7 or 8 of my close friends i raced with came over. so many, ne, can we pick hog, you know, there were like, equally about racing next year where you could see the love. i felt my gesture was a really profound thing. it made a massive impact. in fact, they hadn't done that. i would have gone back the next year, 2 years into a transition, charlie began attacking her motorsport goals with renewed vigor and

a new found confidence. things began looking up in her career. i vans for probably the hardest part of that experience and i starting to find confidence and self belief that i'd never 9 and my whole life. and i think that had a huge impact not just on racing, but on so many levels on just how you think of function. it's like having compute said, it's freely old and slow and you install a new operating system when you boot up and it's like bump, let's go good. you want to do what do you have does what it felt like to me. i went to fonts, i did it around the french hill climb championship and i 1.3 seconds and i break the close record by 2 seconds or something which it clinton's. it's like

a lot. i me, i just when i, when it's, it's going to have experience and i have you want to surprise me included like where did that come from? so 2017 with my last year hill climate. and at the end of that year there was a within the, within the team structure, there was the opportunity to do an endurance race in that car. i looked at the calendar, i could, if i did, but it's the one race. and i looked on the was one word that popped out of me. the mon, november 2017 thought. wow. 3 are endurance race in a prototype at the mom? of course, not the 24 hour course is the beauty circuit, but nonetheless i never thought in my wildest dreams die could stand on the podium at the mall and

not just, not just me, but real me. and i just remember thinking, please, you know, if i can, if i can do this, i can get this fall. then that's like her. it's like a sign. it's like, can i him? it's like you've got a clear train. you gotta keep going and try and make this happen. and raised the 24 hours of the month for ill. whether i got on the podium or not, another thing in this life, i want to help other people find the happiness that i found. and, and i also want other people to understand the role day can play and facilitating more inclusive environments where everybody can be their true authentic self. when you're brave you, you take risks. sometimes it doesn't go the way you want, but, but more often than not you, you like i cook a foster around the corner. i can,

i can take that, that corner in 4th gear. i can take a course, 5th gear. you. you just continually push the boundaries, push your own limits of what's comfortable with what's cheaper, bowen and for long you have built courage. built resilience. you build something very yeah. very real inside i think 70 and charlie priest price. i think 7 you, her charlie was pretty happy because i never imagined that things would be the way they are now. so i think i feel like i've had to wait a little time had to quit patient and the system for i think you can say right now is like a good time. say i think 7, your b would be be pretty happy like this. get me a big part of it is believing in possibility. yeah. if you believe something is

possible you you give it a guy, you give it a 100 percent rather than talk yourself out of it. say i always said this is impossible. i can't do this. this isn't for me. so suddenly you flip that around and you think okay, but it is possible and i and i just prove and i can do that will. what else can i do them way to go, charlie, and stay tuned for more automotive hope streams and possibilities. on the next episode of rev with

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