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. the black london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically. the top of the on caps was the noise. you know, the thing is comfort 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 find thomas 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 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 cab for an electric. one

smooth is and that comfortable is a type. so all the stress of your dies, 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 with 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 a completely new e,

the production line, supported by chinese car baker, dealing 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 tank. see 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 traces, it's d n a back to the fx from 1968. thank the we've

kept the looks 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 the long opponents we have 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 loveliness requirements are 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 1990 1000000. 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 hope 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. lots of these 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 a point 8 mates as turning circle. and that's because of the turning points at the

savoy. hotel is a boy hotel, it 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 we only drove any k we use by some draw. i'm on the wrong solve. the problem is, uh, yeah, this is all i deal with. the taxi is locked in for this because of the $24.00 foot turning circle. and then it comes here and here will 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 bonnet. 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 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 extender 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 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 and to the aluminum body. this allows passengers to get to know the city even better. a london kathy austin doubles as a tour, guide the the amory out in front of you. where the admiralty used to play fast, like start with the ability less on it to hotel the loved the golf. absolutely love it.

you go to what play just say for the chart for these types of pictures on it's on, sometimes 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 buy one of i quite a few tracks. these are 27 users, you know,

even though this is a very up to die vehicle, the h like conic returning your eye clinic look 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 fits 9 am and kronos and christina anderson 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 in it. but 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. uh so fox, 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 logos, 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 a and ray, 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 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 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 in the way the bus comes to a halt. here's the leading the i'll say, here's the line where it would automatically pull into the stop on its own do this . this is where the car is, so it would collide one die or it's dumps and weights for the optical to move into an especially being that i can use the controller to city or the shuttle around and then into the bus stop on the display fonts with us, but how safe is the bus? they have an obstacle. suddenly it 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. a few steps 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, align indoors, we have around 3000 traffic deaths in germany every year. in 90 percent of the results of human error technology has the potential to eliminate most of the 90 percent higher. think that knowing supports 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 autonomous.

i figured out how it was going to take my life. i'd say myself into barrett, i just realized i don't even have any connection with preston started back 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 in. but the 2nd, the place she felt most at home was the restrict, the code 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 an l t t t plus activist. i didn't have to be the 1st trans drive, the 24 hours of the month. i gray not feeling very limited because knowing as

transgender from the 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, or has the effect of making me feel very limited terms of my life options. hireling 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, 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 who is 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 come payments and his dad used to race know 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 all these causes very. yeah. it's a very kind of intoxication 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 spock event easy, 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. 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 in living tional 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. and 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 might sport, 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 early,

struck for the 1st time products. it was like scary thing to imagine his time, a car and then to set my car in the car park just thinking, well, i'd have to do this. you know, it does 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 so we can 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 mood, explore 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 life. and i think that had a huge impact,

not just on racing, but on so many levels on just how you think can function it's like having computed it's pretty old and slight, and you installed in your pricing 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 one by 3 seconds. and i break plus record by 2 seconds. which it who clamp 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 want me to surprise me included. like, where did that come from? 62017 was my last year to 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, i looked sign those ones with the pop telling me long november 2017. so wow, 3 aren't here and thrice enterprise type out the ball. and of course not the $24.00 at coast just to be se. second, but nonetheless, i never so in my wildest dreams, i can stand on the page, you know, it's just not just me, but really i just remember thinking say so, you know, if i, if i can see that if i can get this fall, then that's like 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. and race that the 24 of them for real. whether i got in the podium or not, that's 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, but the more often than not you, you like i took a foster on the corner. i can, i can tell you that that corner in foster care contact accord, fix can you, you just continually push the boundaries, push your limits of what's comfortable with what,

what's chief of pulling into for long. you have the courage in the city and build something very yeah. very real insight. i think 70 rashadi pretty surprised. i think stephanie, her chatting was pretty happy cuz i never imagined that things have feet away down now. so i think i feel like i've had to wait some time, a quick patient assistant, but i think sorry, right now is like a good time. so yeah, i think 7 year be would be pretty like the may a big part of it as the leading and plus affinity. 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 you send me flip that around and you think

okay, is possible, and i, and just prove that i can do that. what else, connie, to the way to go, charlie, and stay tuned for more automotive health streams and possibilities. and the next step is owed up. grab the

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