the prices got any issues or thoughts they were crazy about the london's iconic black cabs get an electric transformation. pluses and kronos involved to go driver free and trans racing driver, charlie martin on how embracing her authentic self help through excel. right now, fun read the, the black cat,

london's unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically. the type of the, all 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 recognized vehicles in the world. exactly like the black runabouts, but started to london city escape for over a century the best of the old traditions. but mary's with new technology holds a special place in the, in, in how satisfied 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 or it's on you. you got the freedom to go out to work the should your life stop driving through london and one of those i promise black pads is special. even today we retain the tradition of the black cab. we've always been voted the, the best taxi service in the world, the traditions this, we don't want me to. busy the taxi is 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 cat for an electric one

that's movies and that comfortable is it takes all the stress of you died. this is so smooth. region bright came and makes it loveliest, mover everything with the whole rod experience. you fantastic family, dc. the company that now builds the electric cabs and a new 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. cat. the ethics score introduced and 1958 was the company's most popular model, m one. 0 and successor has had been based on the 2080 mission regulations for central london sounded the death knell for the cults. diesel powered texas, but l a. b. c. we acted fast with a completely new e. d. put auction 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 tanks 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 model, the t x traces, it's d n a 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 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 $9090.00 millions. 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 those requirements 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 folklore is that that was put in place because of people with, with sole pad some but with the 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 lessons. deployments 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 this void hotel. this of all hotel,

it has a very, very tight entry, the dining. so this of what code we come in on the right hand side as opposed to the left is the only drove in k, we use by some draw. i'm on the wrong side of the problem is uh yeah, this is all i deal with. the taxi is locked in for these because of the $24.00 foot tony 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 caps 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 a very good customer experience compared to what we have now. in new t x, where under the bone it 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 aircraft 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 party design. and we ended up with the 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 me the amory out in front of you. where the admin or which you used to pay for like solve the buildings and the left side of it is a huge hotel. loved the gulf. absolutely lovely. you tell me what play just say for the top i so i took pictures

all the time. sometimes yes, i can lab and then my level look to the fed up. oh, got randall died. there are currently 6500 ts models from l. a. b. 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 salt 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 little. when clean the cab, you know, so i deals were given a what the written very, very heavy from the di, my 1st shot in the driving say of one of these, the very 1st guy i knew i was going to buy one of i quite a few checks, he's on the 27 using his 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 cat. a great example of how british tradition lives on and motors the missing free and innovatively into the future. the it's 9 am and kronos and christina and his son is ready to get her unusual 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 on the self 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 kronos, locals, terrorists, everyone's getting on board. a city bus service is also available button only stops at the main tourist location. the rose and back fortress 4 times a day. for a steep climb can be tough for some people. enter the autonomy the 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 street through the pedestrians down in ray,

how tiny bus shuttles back and forth between the production site specter and offices on a freeway beat or 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 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 of the out. here's the line where it would automatically pull into the stop on its own 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 an especially being that i can use the controller to steer the shuttle around and then into the bus stop on the display fonts with us. but how safe is the bus to give an obstacle? suddenly it gets in its way the 2 laser beam scan the surroundings 50 times. the

2nd term 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, 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 on the on facebook, 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 toners. i

figured out how it is going to take my life. i've seen myself in the mirror and i just realized i don't even have any connection with preston standby anymore or supported living. tional 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 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 b t t plus activist. i don't have to be the 1st trends, july, the 24 hours of the month. i probably 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 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 and that's one gender. feel that they all a dentist lies 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 isn't flat, you know, i can't really risk your recombine in my life. why? no, it was about a 1000000 years old. i had a friend co 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're calm, 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 uh, it's a very kind of intoxication smell, being in that environment you know, tester lawrence and interested in noise and do something about it, but just yeah, just let a real spock, if indeed he hasn't made me. so here, let's see diverse. see, i made up my mind, this is it. i'm going to 20 some, some racing myself. but this pleasure to a 5 was like a hoff finished project. the roll cage had a 16 valve engine, but that was, it was like, had 4 wheels at no doors on. it was like,

everything was stripped out of it, but it was something i could afford. the 1st thing i did not, she was a sprint, the cobra. but nonetheless, i was, that was gonna be saying, this thing might just bolt onto my own stay. and that was a great feeling coming in stop period. that's 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 realize, yeah, i don't, i don't even have any connection with the person starting. documenting will at nothing in my life. reading math, it's me anymore because it's just like, well, what's the point you 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 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 as, and i did some bite 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 buckland, racing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved hormone replacement therapy and surgery. she's had done to a race track for the 1st time. it's like

scary thing to imagine. his son and my car and then to set my car in the car parked just thinking, well, i'd have to do this if i could just go home. no, it would have been nice fortunately. 7, right. if my place friends are a suite came i the serving a give me because you know they were like me, bart racing next you when he gets the beloved, i felt the adjustments are really profound, saying and made a massive impact in fox if they hadn't done that i wouldn't come back the 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 in oak area by 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 not just on 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 go good, you want to do what do you want? that's what it felt like me. i went on so did it around to differentiate like championships and i one by 3 seconds and i break the costs record by 2 seconds. which it has like tens, it's like a lot. i mean i just when they're, when it's the sky has experience and have you. well mr. price, me included. like, why did 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. alex the counting deck, if i had the budget to the one right, i looked sign those ones with that pop telling me them on november 2017. so wow, 3 aren't here and thrice. enterprise type at the bottom. of course not the 24 at coast just to be se 2nd, but nonetheless i'd, i'd never so in my wildest dreams, i can stand on the podium at the moment. no, it's just not just me, but really i just remember thinking saves, 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 have 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 on 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 authentic self. when you're brave you you take risks. sometimes it doesn't go that 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 in foster care contact according 50 you. you just continually push the boundaries for sure i limits of what's comfortable with what, what's cheaper pulling and before long you have to college and city and build

something very yeah. very real insight. i think i'm pretty surprised. i think stephanie, her chatting was pretty coffee cuz i never imagined that things are feet away 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 be would be pretty like the may a big part of it as the leading and philosophy. yeah. if you believe something is possible, you, you gave it a guy, you get a 100 percent ross been told to yourself, out of it. say, 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, i know prove,

and i can do that. what else, connie, to the way to go, charlie, and stay tuned for more automotive health streams and possibilities on the next episode of grab the,

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