to say what is not what makes the difference is just in love. yeah. and binding thing. step away from the spot. i'm not even allowed to go to my own car and everyone was made of holes and every single day stuff. getting you ready to meet the driven can join me right. just do it on dw, the london's iconic black caps get an electric transformation, buses and kronos involved to go driver free and trans racing driver, charlie martin on how embracing her authentic self help through excel. right now, on the,

the black cat, london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city, electrically. half of the old tubs was the noise. you know, the thing is the lane discomfort you cramped up. this is so smooth. obviously the most important thing is it, we've got 0, make sure i still managed to reach finally the icon it look about this is probably one of the most recognize vehicles in the world. exactly like the black runabouts that started to london city escape for over a century. the best of the old traditions, but mary's with new technology. the whole is a special place in the this is imms in the house of 5 many people.

peter powell has driven the cab in london for 27 years and he loves his job. is quite unique. you because you're in charge of yourself for that. so you, you've got the freedom to go out to work, to shake your life. stop driving through london and one of those a chronic 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 road. the traditions this we don't want to to. busy the taxes, like is it a like on the oh rich find boxes and the bosses? despite his love of tradition, peter is happy that he's swapped his diesel cap for an electric. one

smooth is and that comfortable it is. it takes all the stress of your day. this is so smooth. region bright came and makes it loveliest, mover everything with the hard experience. you fantastic. l. a. d. c. the company that now builds the electric cabs in a new factory near coventry has shaped the london taxi trade since 19 knowing. using the technical underpinnings of in austin. they develop the boxy party variance of the theme to london. can the ethics score introduced to 1958 was the company's most popular model, m one? 0, and successors had been based on the 2080 mission regulations for central london sounded the death knell for the cults? diesel powered taxi, but l a. b. c. we acted fast with the complete the news,

the production line supported by chinese car baker, sealing project management, 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 tax 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, the t x francis, it's d n a. back to the ethics 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 lay headlights that quite a upfront, slightly grilled the proportions along the side of the vehicle. the the long bonus 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 site season in 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. grading forward and it says also attached to comfort those requirements for the minimum distance between the seats. so that this space for people to sit facing each other and that has to be a sufficient head room. the folklore is that that was put in place because of people with wits help had some bola hats to be able to gets in. and of course the transports passengers and the british capital also has to be right up there in terms of technology. requirements of 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 at hotel. as a boy hotel has a very, very tight entry, the dining. so as of what code we'd come in on the right hand side as opposed to the left is the only drone in k, where he's supposed to am on the long, soft or the rose is a yeah, this is all i deal with. the taxi is locked in for these because of the $24.00 foot telling the circle that it comes here. and here we probably want to 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 4 cylinder,

diesel engine a very much, much of its time in the, in the late eighty's. but quite noisy, quite rationally. not a 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 wayne to extend or can charge the battery if necessary. the 110 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 plains 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 experiencing for 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 and to 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

over to tell him sometimes. yes, i can let him and i'm a little low to lift it up. oh, got randal 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, it's all 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 buy 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 retrying the, like when it looked like we need to keep that like when i told the electric london cab and a great example of how british tradition lives on and motors, the mission free and innovatively into the future. the it's 9 am and kronos and christina anderson is ready to get her on usual bus on the road. isn't 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 saying 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 bus to calculate its current position. software checks the

position against the stored route. any deviation is immediately correct. the best remains precisely on the blue line. something in the way the bus comes to a halt is still in 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's dumps and weights 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 dish, the fonts 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 slip 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. and 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 thought anything have any connection with preston started back meaningful or supported living tional living is here growing up there 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

a knowing that i was trying to stand it from a 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. harland, because he 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 view a all a 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 with in 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 who 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 of that environment you know, tester lawrence and just wind noise and do something about it but it just yeah, just let a real spark of in peasy hasn't made me so year left seat of a see i made up my mind. this is it. i'm going to 20 some, some bracing myself with this pleasure 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 and doors on. it was like,

everything was stripped out of it. but it was something i could afford. the 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 mike mike, 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 steinbach him anymore. at nothing in my life really matter 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 like, 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 wrong, i can't do this. and that was january 2012 that i decided to take this, i'm going to transition as they 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 soft 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 to imagine his time, a car and then to set my car, the car park just thinking, well, i'd have to do this, this guy heim, you know, and that's a nice fortunately, 7 or 8 of my close friends are raced with, came eva, serving a give me because, you know, they were like, you clean heart racing next you where you get see, 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 moodle. gould with renewed vigor and then you found confidence. things began looking up in hook area. i 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 heights. 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 picked it up 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 claim championship. and i 1.3 seconds and i break the costs record by 2 seconds. which it, who claim tens 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 saves, you know, if i, 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 have it's like you could if 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 info k or contact the corner fixed. yeah. 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 the courage of the city and build

something very yeah. very real insight. i think 70, i'm 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 it is the leading impulse benefits. yeah, keeping something is possible. you, you get 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 that. this isn't for me. so me flip

that around, did you think okay, is possible and i, i just prove and i can do that. what else connie dave? the way to go, charlie, and stay tuned for more automotive help streams and possibilities. and the next step is so the rather the,

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