The black cat, londons unofficial mascot now drives through the city electrically. The 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, weve got 0, make sure i still monies to which finally the icons look about this is probably one of the most recognized vehicles in the world. Exactly like the black runabouts that started to london city escape for over a century. The best of all the old traditions. But marys with new technology. The whole is a special place in the, in, in, 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 youre in charge of yourself for that. So you, you got the freedom to go out to work. So should 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. Weve always been invited to the the fresh attack, she said that she knew weld the traditions. We dont want me to throw 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 hes swapped his diesel cab for an electric one thats movies and that comfortable is it takes 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 family vc, 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 see us explore introduced to 1958 with the companys 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 d production line supported by chinese con 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 taxi in the world and the worlds only purposely design taxi. Its not a vehicle thats converted from a van or from a call or from a mini boss. Its 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, its d n a back to the fx from 1958. Weve kept the look the same, so things like the proportions around the headlights, the grill. Keeping that very, very traditional look. And weve 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 opponents we have sense sweeping, move line at the back of the vehicle. And then inside weve 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 theres also requirements for it to be Wheelchair Accessible london was one of the 1st cities in the world to make wheelchair accessibility men to treat all the taxes in, in the 1999. So we have to be able to fit a wheelchair that has to be around for the wheelchair. Theres a stat, these regulations are very, very restrictive. Great in the forward in this is 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, with top 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 those 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 thats 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 would co, wed come in on the right hand side as opposed to the left is the only drove in k, we use by some draw. Im on the long soft or the problem is uh 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 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 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 eightys. 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 flow. Our panels and the entire body is made of aluminum. The individual components are not limited or welded, but rather glued together in a complex process. Its 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 40 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 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 often doubles as a tour guide. And the the amory out in front of you. Where the admin or which you used to pay for like solve the building and the left side of it. Its a huge hotel but i loved the golf. Absolutely lovely. You tell me what play just say for the top i so i took pictures on its on. Sometimes yes, i can learn. Im a little low to lift it up. Oh, got randall died. There are currently 6500 t x 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 doesnt bother peter powell little. When cleaning the cab, you know, so i deals were given a what the written very, very heavy from the di, my 1st shuttle 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, hes on the 27 using his you know, even though this is a very up to die vehicle a 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 mission free and innovatively into the future. The its 9 am and kronos and christina and a son is ready to get her on usual bus on the road. The more it is, im 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 cant 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, everyones getting on board. A City Bus Service is also available, but it only stops at the main tourist location. The rose and backed fortress 4 times a day for steep climb can be tough for some people enter the autonomy shuttle which runs all day. And its 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 and 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 thats 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 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 bus remains precisely on the blue line. Something in the way the bus comes to a halt. Heres the leading you of the, heres 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 its 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 dish. The 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 a 2nd. They recognize things that are too close. The bus reacts immediately of the no moment of shock. Thanks to the sensors, tube strip 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 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 knowing supports and so they dont 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 a toner and i figured out how it was going to take my life. Id say myself into barrett, i just realized i dont even have any connection with preston started back to me anymore. Or supported living tional living is here going up there with 3 things that Charlie Martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didnt identify his meals. The agenda shed been assigned them, but the 2nd, the place she felt most at home was the restrict, the code that youd never be able to reconcile these 2 worlds. Hi, im tony moss and im a professional racing driver. Im in l t b t t plus activist. I didnt have to be the 1st trends july, the 24 hours of the month. I gray not feeling very limited because or 9 i was trying to stand it from a young age. I never had any role models growing up. Ive never seen anyone like me doing anything the ice by today. And that has the effect of making me feel very limited terms of my life options. Caroline, cause the was the 1st person that i discovered he was transgender, and up until that point i didnt realize people could people on this one, gender, feel that 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 someones helping me with isnt flat, you know, i cant really risk your recombining 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, were getting racing through the com. I never actually been to race track and especially being in the pad it with all the cause being surrounded by by or these causes very yeah. Its a very kind of intoxication smell thing in that environment, you know, tester lawrence and just wind noise and do something about it the just yeah, just let a real spock if in peasy as a man me so year and a seat of a c, i made up my mind, this is it, im going to 20 some, some bracing myself, but its pleasure to a 5. Was like a hoff finished project. A roll cage had a 16 valve engine, but 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 not. She was a sprint, the cobra. But nonetheless, i was that was completely saying the thing might just bolt onto my own stay. And that was a great feeling coming in stop period does when im 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 dont, i dont even have any connection with the person started blocking anymore at nothing in my life really mess its me anymore because its just like, well, whats the point in living tional living see i figured out how it was gonna take my life and i couldnt, you know, i was at a point where i, i just couldnt 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 cant do this. And that was january 2012 that i decided to take this, im 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 need somebody to support and i just dont know whats going on except me in that space. Charlies family and friends convinced her not to be sucked when racing 9 months and her medical transition, which involved hormone replacement therapy and surgery. She had done to early, struck for the 1st time product. It was like scary thing to imagine. His son in the car and then to set my car in the car park just thinking, well, id have to do this if i could just go behind you know, and thats a nice fortunately, 7. Right. If my Close Friends are raced with came i the serving a can be because, you know, they were like the 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 hadnt done that, i wouldnt 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 and hook area. I pens for probably the hardest part of that experience and im starting to find confidence, self belief that id never 9 and my whole heights. And i think that had a huge impact. No, it just dont racing but on so many levels on just how you think of the function its like having computed its pretty old and slight and you installed in your Pricing System and the beauty authentic site from lets go good. You want to do what you want. Okay. Thats what it felt like to me. I went on so i did it around the differential club championship. And i one by 3 seconds. And i break plus record by 2 seconds. Which it who clintons is. Its like a lot. I mean i just when theyre, when its in the sky have experience and have you want me to surprise me included. Like, why did that come from 62017 was my last years hill clinic. And at the end of that yes, 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 do one race and i looked sign those ones with the pop telling me long november 2017. So wow, 3 arent here and thrice enterprise type out the ball. And of course not the 24 at coast, just to be se 2nd, but nonetheless, i never feel in my wildest dreams that i can stand on the podium at the moment. No, its not just me, but real me. And i just remember thinking saves, you know, if i can, if i can see that, if i can get this fault, then thats like, cuz its like a sign. Its like, can i him and its 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 on the paid him 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 sent itself. 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