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the black cat, london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically. with half bath, the caps were the noise, you know that they usually come foot, you cramped up, the vicious. so she moved, obviously the lighting, poking it was got 0. make sure i still managed to which hiding the, the icon it look about. this is probably one of the most recognized vehicles in the world exactly like the black runabouts that dont at the london city scape for over a century the best of the old traditions but married with new technology holes a special place in that in the hall. so for 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 his 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 on the black cap, we've always been voted the, the best taxi service in the world. the traditions as we come only to. busy throughout the taxes are like, as in all i come. not y'all, rich found boxes in the boxes are despite his love of tradition, peter is happy that he's swapped his diesel cat for an electric, one. smooth is and that comfortable is

a. it takes all, all the stress out of your die that this is so smooth region break came the makes it loveliest, mover everything. the whole rod 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. can 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 is easy production line,

supported by chinese car maker dealing project manager lloyd bones and, and his team developed in 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 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 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 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 ah, mandatory on taxes in, in 1989. so we have to be able to fit

a wheelchair. the has to be a ramp for the wheelchair. 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 bola hats to be able to get in and have cars that transports passenger is in the british capital also has to be right up there in terms of technology london 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 going into savoy co. we come in on the right hand side as opposed to the left is the only 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 we'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. 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

a 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 admiralty used the bay. i saw the building, my left, her a huge hotel. i loved the golf. absolutely love it. you go to what play is to see. so the chocolate i can 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 what though i'm read very, very happy from 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 of his job. even down is you do

a very up to die vehicle. it's iconic retinas, iconic looked like we need to keep that, like when i took the electric london tab, a great example of how british tradition lives. ellen and motors the mission free and innovatively into the future. with it's 9 am and krona. oh, and christina and her son is ready to get her unusual bus on the road. in rivermore is i'm abilene warning. we have to do one really without any passengers to see if the technology works in it. but 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. and 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. in rehab

a chinese bus shuttled 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 lazer burst 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 correct. hm. mm. the bus remains precisely on the blue line. something in the way the bus comes to a halt. yes, the lena out there. oh, here's the line where it would automatically pull into the stop on its own. this out. this is where the car is, so it would collide on dia, it stops and wait for the obstacle to move within the next 15 that i can use the controller to steer the shuttle around and then into the bus. stop on the end on the handy harvest in the 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 shock, 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 dodge, and 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 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 off 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 2 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 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 i up until that point i didn't realize people could be born as one gender feel that they all i identifies as different gender and then they can actually physically transition and, and so on and so on. so when i saw her, it was like someone's 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 um, you know, very competitively at club level. and he said, yeah, you know, we're going racing. if you and com. i never actually been to race track and especially being in the paddock with all the cause being surrounded by by of these cause it's very, yeah. it's a very kind of intoxicating smell. being in that environment, you know the caster lauren and just the noise and do some thing about it. they just yeah. just let a real spark of enthusiasm in me. i said year less seat of a. see i made up my mind. this is it. i'm going to 20 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 p saying to staying 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, 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 because it's a slight will was living shannon living with you i figured out how'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 was of 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, this is it. we're going to transition. so 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 a bite sport and i just thought no one's gonna accept me in that space. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to give up undressing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved coin, laundry placement therapy and surgery. she did on 2 areas track for the 1st time

working with kata was like scary thing. i could imagine. i sat in my car, amanda sat, my car in the car park to thinking, well i'd have to do that. just go home there. well enough, nice. fortunately, 7 or 8 of my close friends i raced with came over so many, ne, can he pick hog, you know, they were like, equally about racing next year. where you could see the love. i felt like gesture was a really profound thing. it made a massive impact. in fact, the hadn't done that. i wouldn't go back the next year. 2 years into the transition, charlie began attacking her motorsport gold's religion. you would vigor in a new found confidence. things began looking up in her career. i pans for probably the hardest part of that experience, and i'm 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 in function. it's like having a compute said it's really old and slow and you install a new operating system and you beat it up and it's like bump. let's go. good. you in a day where you like that. that's 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 that last record by 2 seconds. which in her class turns is it's like a lot. i mean, i just weather when it's, it's going to have experience. and i have you, wilma, surprise, me included like where did that come from say 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, to an endurance race in that car. i looked the calendar cuz i had the budget, the one race, and i looked on those 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 in my wildest dreams duyka stand on the podium at the mall and not just, not just me, but real me. and i just remember thinking kids, you know, if i can, if i can do this, i can get this fall. then that's like a, 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 make this happen, and race at the 24 hours a month for real. whether i go 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 they 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 the way you want, but, but more often than not you, you like i cook a foster on the corner. i can, i can take that, that corner and 40 or can take a court 5th gear. you. you just continually push the boundaries, push your own limits of what's comfortable with what's cheaper, bowen and before long you have built courage. you built resilience,

you build something very yeah. very real inside. i think 70 of 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 feel like i've had to wait a long time, had to quit patient at the system. but i think even side right now is like a good time. so yeah, i think 7, your me would be 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 get 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. well, what else can i do? wait a go, charlie and stay tuned for more automotive hopes, dreams and possibilities. on the next episode of reb on capable ah, ah, [000:00:00;00]

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