this 24 hours of little red. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. romantic corner track hotspot for food, chair, and some great cultural memorials to boot. d w. travel off we go. london's iconic black camps get an electric transformation. classes in kronos evolved to go driver free and trans racing driver, charlie martin on how embracing her authentic self helped her excel right now. fun, rare

with the black cat london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically with how bad the old tabs were. the noise, you know, that they usually mean discomfort. you cramped up the fish, so smooth, obviously utilizing poking 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 cityscape for over a century of the old traditions.

but mary's with new technology holds a special place in that in the hearts of many people. peter powell has driven a cap in london for 27 years and he loves his job. is quite unique wordy because you're in charge of your show for it. so um you, you got a 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 about the black cap. we've always been voted the the best taxi service in the world. the traditions with i'm only took the. busy out the taxes are like, as in all i come, not y'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 bright came and makes it loveliest, mover everything. the whole world experience. you fantastic. only the see the company that now builds the electric pads in a new factory near coventry has shaped the london taxi trade since 19 o. 8 in thing, the technical underpinnings of an austin. they developed the boxy body variance of the theme to london calves the f explore introduced in 1958 was the company's most popular model. and one, all its successors had been based on. but the 2018 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 bonds 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 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 x 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 a 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 is mandatory to london's requirements are very strict in terms of the vehicle length, the vehicle wit. 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 this 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 folklore, is 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 passenger is in the british capital also has to be right up there in terms of technology. requirements are very strict of 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 leoni drought in k, where you're supposed to draw. one won't shorter it. yeah, this is, i deal with the taxi is ideal for this, because you've 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. the way we see the biggest changes are

underneath the bonnet and if we look on the old vehicle, we see there a 4 cylinder diesel engine. 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 planes like the air bus 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 admiralty used to pay for. i saw the building and i left her

a huge hotel. i loved the golf. absolutely lovely. you go, what play is to 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. i'll guy randal, di ah, there are currently 6500 t x models from eli d. 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 even what though i read very, very happy from the die. i 1st sat in driving say of one of the,

the very 1st i honor i was going to bar one of i quite a few tracks is our 27 years in israel. even down is you do a very up to die vehicle. each iconic retain you, iconic looked like we need to keep that. like when i took the electric london cab a great example of how british tradition lives. owen and motors the mission free and innovatively into the future. ah, ah ah, it's 9 am and kronos and christina and her son is ready to get her unusual

bus on the road. dimmer than water is i'm every morning we have to do one really without any passengers to see if the technology works in if, if there is a construction site somewhere or something unusual on the route where we have to say ok today, we can't do this one or event, or you have to be careful here. love with our dog though 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, arose and back fortress 4 times a day. the steep climb can be tough for some people enter the autonomy shuttle which runs all day and is

a welcome compliment to public transport. just like in the town of pope where 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 d laser 1st scan, 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 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 this end. and especially when that i can use the controller to steer the shuttle around and then into the bus stop on the end, on the handy,

i wish to la fontose. but how safe is the bus if an obstacle suddenly gets in its way to laser beams, scan the surroundings 50 times. the 2nd time they recognize things that are too close. the bus reacts immediately no moment of shock, thanks to the sensors. m huge slept though, 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 the album 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 that 90 percent pilot is anointed, pretend 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 stand back anymore. oh, as the point living, shannon living is here. growing up, there were 3 things that charlie martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify as mailed. the agenda 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 2 world. i am charlie martin, i'm a professional racing driver. i'm in l g

b t t plus activist on m hope to be the 1st trans driver at the 24 hours of lamar. i grew up feeling very limited because knowing that was transgender from a young age, i never had any role models growing up. i've never seen anyone like me doing anything the i spy today. 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 he was transgender. and 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 uri commandment 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 your race track and especially being in the paddock with all the cause. being surrounded by, by of these causes very here is a very kind of intoxicating smell. being in the 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 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 night. 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 out, she was a sprint, a cobra. but nonetheless, i was there. i was can be saying to staying my to sports under 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 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 anymore because 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 myself, this is this wrong, i can't do this. and that was january 2012 that i, i decided okay to say i'm going to transition say 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 looked at might sport and i just thought no one's gonna accept me in that space. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to be talked andrea thing 9

months into her medical transition, which involved hormone d placement had to be in surgery she had done to arrest track for the 1st time. wilson potter was like scary thing. could imagine. i had sat in my car, amanda sat, my car in the car park to thinking will i'd have to do that. you like to go home? no one f nice. fortunately. 7 or 8 of my clase fans i raced with came over. so many ne can be because, 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 moody sport goals with jean. you would figure in a new found confidence, things began looking up in her area. i pans for probably the hardest part of that

experience. and i starting to find confidence, 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 from let's go good. you wanted a wedding, i'd have does what it felt like to me. i went to france, i did it around the french heal clyde championship and i one by 3 seconds. and i break the clos record by 2 seconds or something which in her client terms is like a lot. i mean, i just whether or when it's, it's going to have experience and i've,

you won't surprise me included like where did that come from? say 2017 with 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 call. i looked the callan derek. if i had the budget, the one race and i looked, i know one word that popped out on me. the mon, november 2017 thought. wow. 3 or endurance race in a prototype at the barn. of course, not the 24 hour course, just the beauty circuit, but nonetheless i never thought and my wife streams the i can stand on the podium at the mall and not just, not just me, but real me. and i just remember thinking, which is,

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, you know 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 long for real. 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 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 cook a foster 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, what, what's cheaper, bowen and before long you have built courage and built resilience. you build something very yeah. very real inside. i think 70 charlie priest price, i think 70 her charlie was pretty happy cuz i never imagined that things would be the way they are now. so i think i feel like i've had to wait a long time. i had to quit patient for the system, but i think you can say right out as like a good time. so yeah, i think 7 year be would be pretty happy like this. get me a big part of it is believing and 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. 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 connotates? mm . way to go, charlie, and stay tuned for more automotive hope streams and possibilities on the next episode of rev ah, with

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