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. the black cat, london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically. half of the old tubs with the noise. you know, the thing is, is this discomfort you cramped up? this is so smooth. obviously the most important thing is it, we've got 0 and i still money is the rich. finally, the icon it look about this is probably one of the most recognized vehicles in the world. exactly like the black runabouts, but started to london city escape for over a century. the space of the old traditions. but mary's with new technology holds a special place in the, in, in,

in the house of 5 many people. peter powell has driven a cab in london for 27 years. and he loves his job. is quite unique. you because you're in charge of your show for that. so, um you, you got the freedom to go out to work, to ship your life, stop driving through london, and one of those i promised black pads is special. even today we retain the tradition of the black cab. we've always been voted the profession taxi service in the world. the traditions this, we don't want me to. busy the tax is like, is it a like on the oh, rich 5 boxes and the bosses. despite his love of tradition, peter is happy that he's swapped his diesel cab for an electric one

s move it is, and that comfortable it is. it takes all the stress of you dies, this is so smooth. region bright came the, makes it loveliest, mover everything with the whole rod experience. you fantastic. l a. d c. the company that now builds the electric cabs and menu factory near coventry has shaped the london taxi trade since 19 knowing. using the technical underpinnings of an austin, they develop the boxy party variance of the theme to london. can the ethics court introduced to 1958 with the company's most popular model? n one o and successors had been based on the 2008 emission regulations for central london sounded the death knell for the cult diesel powered taxi. but l a. b, c, we acted fast with a completely new e production line supported by chinese con baker,

sealing project manager lloyd bones and ended steam developed in electric london taxi. bringing the venerable british icon in the future. we continue to invest in the taxi product to make it the best time 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 call or from a mini boss. it's the only vehicle in the world that is designed with a clean sheet of paper to meet the requirements of being a taxi, the london conditions of fitness of some of the most stringent taxi regulations in the world. and the new electric models that cx trends has its 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, very traditional look. and we've kept flat on the new ts around so to lie headlights that quite a upfront, slightly grilled the proportions along the side of the vehicle. the long bullets we have a sense sweeping move 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 london is requirements of very strict in terms of the vehicle length the vehicle with but there's also requirements for it to be wheelchair accessible london was one of the 1st cities in the world to make wheelchair accessibility a mandatory on the tax season in the 1999. so we have to be able to fit

a wheelchair that has to be around for the wheelchair. that's a step. these regulations are very, very restrictive. great importance is also attached to comfort. there is a requirement for the minimum distance between the seats, so that this is a space for people to sit facing each other. and that has to be a sufficient head room, the folk glories that that was put in place because of people with, with sole pad, some bowler hats to be able to gets in and cars that transports passengers. and the british capital also has to be right up there in terms of technology. requirements are very strict, 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. this of all hotel,

it has a very, very tight entry, the dining. so as of what we've come in on the right hand side as opposed to the lift, cuz we don't need drove any kind of what you're supposed to drive on the wrong sort of the problem is uh yeah, this is all i deal with the tax season i feel for this because of the $24.00 foot tony circle and then it comes here here. we'll probably wanna let you out. the latest regulation that affects the taxi trade in london. only cars with the emission free power trains can now be registered for passenger transport, which has had a huge influence on the black cops to where we see the biggest changes underneath the bonus. and if we look on the old vehicle, we see that a full cylinder, diesel engine a very much, much of its time in the,

in the late eighty's, but quite noisy, quite rationally. not very good customer experience compared to what we have now in new t x. where under the bonus is everything to generate electricity. a small fuel based range extend or can charge the battery is necessary. the $110.00 kilowatt electric motor is built directly into the rear axle in order to keep the total 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 funded living in chassis, which originally comes from the across the industry. so things like be about

a $320.00 a built this way. on top of that, we put compass it panels and to get the, the, the expertise in that type of a for the design. and we ended up with engine is who with experience informed me to one another motor sports to come in and help design an engineer of the product. and the engineers also manage to build a huge glass roof into the aluminum body. this allows passengers to get to know the city, even better. a london cabbie austin doubles as a tour, guide the the amory out in front of you. where the admiralty used to play fast, like some of the buildings and the left side of it. it's a huge hotel. the button loved the golf. absolutely love it. you go to what play just say for the child is taking pictures

or to tell him something. so i'm here so that i can learn i'm and i'm a little low to lift it up. oh got random died there are currently 6500 ts models from l e. d. c. on the road in london. and almost half of all london cabs 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 a little when clean the cab. you know, so i deal with given me what the written, very, very heavy from the di, my 1st shot in the driving seat of one of these. the very 1st guy i knew i was going to bar one of i quite a few checks is on the 27 users. you know, even though this is a very up to die vehicle, the

h like conic returning the electronic note. like we need to keep that like when i told the electric london cat, a great example of how the british tradition lives on and motors the mission free and innovatively into the future. the it's 9 am in kronos. and christina and his son is ready to get her on usual bus on the road. the more it is, i'm the morning we have to do one room without any passengers to see if the technology works. and if there is

a construction site somewhere or something unusual on the roof, where we have to say ok today we can't do this. or you have to be careful here. most of the sofa this a ton of his bus does a lot on its own driving, breaking, accelerating. it precisely follows a virtual blue line. each round trip is 3 kilometers through kronos. locals, terrorists, everyone's getting on board. a city bus service is also available, but it only stops at the main tourist location. the rose and back fortress 4 times a day. for steep climb can be tough for some people enter the autonomy shuttle which runs all day. and it's 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 street through the pedestrians down the in 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 lazer. first scan the entire route, roads, walls and buildings were recorded as a cloud of points. a digital image of the vehicles environment down to this 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 bus to calculate its current position. software checks the

position against the stored route. any deviation is immediately correct. the bus remains precisely on the blue line. something and the way the bus comes to a halt is the leading the of the out. here's the line where it would automatically pull into the stop on its own. do this out. this is where the car is, so it would collide one die or it stops and waits for the optical to move into any special being that i can use the controller to steer the shuttle around and then into the bus stop on the display, the font for us, but how safe is the bus to give an obstacle? suddenly it gets in its way. the 2 laser beams scan the surroundings 50 times,

the 2nd. they recognize things that are too close. the bus reacts immediately no moment of shock, thanks to the sensors. huge step that 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, line indoors. we have around $3000.00 traffic debts in germany every year. in 90 percent of the results of human error technology has the potential to eliminate. most of the 90 percent hire things that are known since puts and so they don't see 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 autonomy.

i figured out how it is going to take my life. i see myself in the mirror and i just realized i don't even have any connection with preston steinbach manual or supported living tional living is here growing up. so with 3 things that charlie martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify as meals, the agenda she'd been assigned and but the 2nd, the place she felt most at home was the restrict the tubs that you'd never be able to reconcile these 2 worlds hi, i'm tony moss and i'm a professional racing driver. i'm in l t t t plus activist. i didn't have to be the 1st trends july, the 24 hours of the month. i gray not feeling very limited because knowing that i

was trying to stand it for me young age. i never had any role models growing up. i've never seen anyone like me doing anything the ice by today, and that has the effect of making me feel very limited in terms of my life options. hard on cause the was the 1st person that i discovered he was transgender, and up until that point i didn't realize people could people on this one, gender field a the dentist size is different. gender and then they can actually physically transition in and so on. and so on. so when i saw her, it was like someone telling me will isn't flat, you know, i can't really risk you recombining in my life. why no, it was about a 9 years old. i had a friend come payments and his dad used to race, nope. professionally,

but you know, very competitively at club level. and he said, yeah, you know, we're getting racing if you'd come. i never actually been to race track and especially being in the pad it with the cause being surrounded by by or these cause is very uh, it's a very kind of intoxicating smell thing in that environment, you know, tester lawrence and just wind noise and do something about it that just yeah, just let a real stock event easy hasn't made me so year left seat of a c. i made up my mind this is it, i'm going to 20 some, some racing myself. suppose you to a 5. was like a hoff finished project, a roll cage had a 16 valve engine. that was, it was like, had 4 wheels, doors on it was like everything was stripped out of it,

but it was something i could afford. a 1st thing i did actually was a sprint, the cobra, but nonetheless, i was, that was completely saying the thing might this bolt onto my own stay. and that was a great feeling coming in stop period . so when i'm starting to struggle, a very struggle with my, my gender identity and i was like 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 started blocking anymore at nothing in my life really mess it to me anymore because it's just like, well, what's the point you living in the living? see i figured out how it was gonna take my life. and i couldn't, i, you know, i was at a point where i, i just couldn't even function. you know,

i could barely get through the day on since that breaks down. and i thoughts myself. this is this role and i can't do this and that was january 2012 that i decided to take this. 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 look at night spoke and i just don't know what's going on except me. in that space. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to be sucked when racing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved hormone replacement therapy and surgery. she had done to a race track for the 1st time products. it was like

scary thing. imagine it's not in my car. i meant to set my car in the car park just thinking, well, i'd have to do this. if i could just go behind, you know, and that's a nice fortunately, 7, right? if my close friends are raced with came i the serving a me because you know they were like you clean heart racing next you when he gets the the love i felt that gesture was a really profound thing and made a mess. it impacts impacts if they hadn't done that, i wouldn't go back to next year. 2 years into the transition, charlie began attacking her motorcycle gould with renewed vigor and then you found confidence. things began looking up and hopefully you like pens for probably the hardest part of that experience. and i'm starting to find confidence, self belief that i'd never 9 and my whole life. and i think that had

a huge impact. no, it just don't racing but on. so many levels on just how you think of the function it's like having computed, it's pretty old and slight and you installed a new operating system and you base it off and it's like from let's guy. good. you want to do what you want. okay? that's what it felt like to me. i went on so i did it around the differential cloud championship. and i one by 3 seconds. and i break plus record by 2 seconds. which in who clinton's is? it's like a lot. i mean, i just, when they're, when it's in the sky have experience and have you. well, mr. price, me included. like, where does that come from? 62017 was my last year till clinic. 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 the call. i looked at the counting deck, if i had the budget to do one race and i looked sign those ones with the pop telling me them on november 2017. so wow, 3 aren't here and thrice enterprise type out the ball. and of course not the 24 at coast is to be se 2nd, but nonetheless, i never so in my wildest dreams, so i can stand on the podium at the moment. no, it's just not just me, but real me and i just remember thinking face, you know, if i can, if i can see that if i can get this fall, then that's like a, it's like a sign. it's like, can i him and it's like you could,

you could try and you gotta keep going and try and make this happen. us and race of the 20 for us of them on for real. whether i got in the party, me or not us. another thing in the slice i want to help other people find the happiness that i found. and i also want other people to understand the role they can play and facilitating more inclusive environment square. everybody can be that true. well, st itself, when you're brave you, you take risks. sometimes it doesn't great way you want that, but more often than not, you, you like i took a foster on the corner. i can, i can take that, that corner and 4 k or contact the corps and fix, get you. you just continually push the boundaries, push your limits of what's comfortable with what, what's cheaper pulling into for long you have to car. just sit in,

build something very yeah. very real insight. i think 70 or shot you pretty surprised. i think stephanie, her chatting pretty coffee cuz i never imagined that thing so either way down now. so i think i feel like i've had to wait for some type of patient assistance, but i think sorry, right now is like a good time. so yeah, i think 7 year old me repeat be pretty like the may a big part of is the leading and possibility. yeah, keeping something is possible. you, you gave it a guy, you get a 100 percent rather than took yourself out of it. so i always said this is impossible, i can't do that. this isn't for me. so i suddenly flip that around and you think

okay, is possible and i, i just prove, and i can do that. what else connie dates the way to go, charlie, and stay tuned. for more automotive help streams and possibilities, and the next step is so the rab, the

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