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with the black cat, london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically. with half of the all caps were the noise. you know, that they usually come foot, you've crammed up the dishes. so she moved. obviously the life poker thing is it. we've got the are our mission i still managed to which hiding the the icon, it look about it. this is probably one of the most recognized vehicles in the world. exactly like the black runabouts that dotted the london city scape for over a century. ah, the best of the old traditions,

but merit with new technology holds a special place in that 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 yearly 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 to london and one of those iconic black tabs is special. even today we retain the tradition of on 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 y'all,

rich found boxes in the boxes. despite his love of tradition, peter is happy that he swapped his diesel cat for an electric one. as smooth is in that comfortable, it is a, it takes a lot of stress out of your day that this is so smooth. region break, came the makes it loveliest, mover 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 to 1958 was the company's most popular model and one, all its successors 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 dealing project manager, lloyd bounce and, and his team developed an electric london taxi bringing the venerable british icon into the future. we've continued 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 is converted from a van or from a cow or from a mini boss. it's the only vehicle in the world that is designed with a clean sheet of paper and 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 x traces, it's dna back to the fx 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 roofline 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. if mandatory to london's requirements are very strict in terms of the vehicle length,

the vehicle whits. 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. there 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 there's that space for people to sit facing each other. and there has to be a sufficient head room, the folklore is that that was put in place because of people with, with top hat, some bola hats to be able to get in. and a car that transports passenger is in the british capital also has to be right up there in terms of technology. london's 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 going into savoy co. we come in on the right hand side as opposed to on the left is the only drought in k where you're supposed to do. i'm gonna won't water. this is a. yeah, this is i deal with the taxi is ideal for this because you got 24 foot turn circle and a concierge here. we'll 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 a 4 cylinder. these elaine 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 air boss, 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 near the armory arch value, where the admiral changed the bay. i saw the building left her

a huge hotel. i loved the gulf. absolutely love it. you go 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 clean the k. yeah, i so i deal with given the what down i'm read very, very happy for the die or fish. sat in the driving say of one of these very 1st i

honor i was going to bar one of i quite a few tracks. is our 27 years in his job. even down, did she do a very up to die vehicle? it's iconic retinas, iconic looked like we need to keep that, like when it built the electric london tab. a great example of how british tradition lives. ellen and motors the mission free, and innovatively into the future. ah, blue, it's 9 am and kronos. oh, and christina and her son is ready to get her unusual bus on the road.

dimmer than water is, i'm happy to morning. 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 event or you have to be careful here. love with our dog dog though often 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, were 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 day 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, de leon? ya, thea. oh here's the line where it would automatically pull into the stop on. it's only this out. this is where the car is, so it would collide on dia, it stops and wait for the obstacle to move is hinden, especially in that. i can use the controller to steer the shuttle around and then

into the bus stop on then down ohio. additionally, 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 indulged. 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 it. 90 percent pilot is anointed. pretend to read all 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 preston. stand back any more or support a living shall not living here. growing up. there were 3 things that charlie martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify as meal the gender she'd been assigned in birth. 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 hoping 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 stay and that has defective making me feel very limited in terms of my life options. carolyn, cause he was the 1st person that i discovered he was transgender. and i up until that point i didn't realize people could be born sworn gender, feel that they are a 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 the 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 um, you know, very competitively at club level. and he said, yeah, you know, we're going racing if you'd come, i'd never actually been to racetrack and especially being in the paddock with the cause being surrounded by, by of these causes very here is a very kind of intoxicating smell. being in that environment. you know the caster lauren and just the noise and do something about it. they just yeah, just let a real spark of enthusiasm in me. i said, year le seat of a c. i made up my mind. this is it. i'm going to 20 some,

some racing myself but as opposed to a 5 was like a half finished project at a roll. cage had a 16 valve and jane, but that was, it was light at 4 wheels at night. doors on a, it was a like with everything was stripped out of that, but it was something i could afford. a 1st thing i did out, she was a sprint, a cobra. but nonetheless, i was there, i was can p saying does doing my to sports on my own stay. and that was a great feeling ah, coming in stop period. that's when i started to struggle. very struggle with my my gender identity and i wake the morning and see myself in the mirror and i just realize, 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 anymore. cuz it's just like, well, what's the point living? you're 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 of that slip 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 with 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 might spot, and i just thought don't like, sat me in that space. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to give up and

dressing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved hormone di placement therapy and surgery. she returned to a race track for the 1st time. wilson's potter 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 there. well enough, nice. 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 wouldn't go 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 by fans for probably

the hardest part of that experience. and i started to find confidence and self belief that i'd never night 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 like? what does what it felt like to me. i went to fonts, i did it around the french hill climb championship and i one by 3 seconds and i break the close record by 2 seconds or something which in her climb turns if it's like a lot. i me, i just whether or when it's,

it's going to have experience and as you want to surprise me included like where did that come from? so 2017 was my last year hill climbing. 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 those one word that popped out of me the mon, november 2017 thought. wow. 3 or endurance race in a prototype at the mom? of course, not the 24 hour cost is the beauty circuit, but nonetheless i never thought in my wildest dreams, i could stand on the podium at the mall and not just, not just me,

but real me. and i just remember thinking to please, you know, if i can, if i can do this, i can get this font. then that's like her. it's like a sign. it's like, and i him, it's like you've got a clear train. you gotta keep going and try make this happen and raised the 24 hours long 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 in facilitating more inclusive environments where everybody can be the true authentic self. when you're brave you, you take risks. sometimes it doesn't go to where you want, but, but more often than not, you know, like i could go faster on the corner. i can, i can't say that that corner in 4th gear, i can take a court,

5th gear. you. you just continually push the boundaries, push your own limits of what's comfortable with what, what's cheaper bowen and before long you have built courage. built resilience. you build something very yeah. very real inciting. i think 70 charlie, pretty surprised. i think 70 her charlie was very 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 for the system. but i think you can say right now as like a good time say, i think 7 year we 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 the 100 percent rather than talk yourself out of it. so 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 connie tate ah wait a go, charlie and stay tuned for more automotive help streams and possibilities on the next episode. of rev ah, with

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