Black Cab Driver test

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It is not possible to tell your friend about someone you have seen on the streets and then just magic them into your real world.

London navigate

The 24-year-old London -born boy spend more playing around than listening during his schooldays. Pearson's aim is to ride one of London's 21,000 legendary black taxis. However, first he must remember almost every road and every emblem in London as part of a trial named Knowledge.

The Knowledge Examination, introduced in 1865, required taxidrivers to be able to navigate between any two points in downtown London without following a chart or even a global positioning system (GPS). Four years can be required to acquire the information and complete a rigorous set of verbal exams. It is a strenuous experience that no trained cab driver can experience anywhere else, and it is the most difficult thing Pearson has ever done.

"â??My nephew was a taxi driver and he encourages me to try,â? he says. "Despite the difficulties of coping with it, taxi riders are proud to protect the knowledge as an important part of their jobs and as something that cannot be replaced by technological solutions. Say it distinguishes them from carpoolers like Uber, whose riders don't need to know, and they believe it allows them to provide a higher standard of customer care.

However, since the map applications reached mobile phone users and the GPS-enabled Über riders burst in London in 2012, knowledge is facing a fickle time. Would taxi riders have to waste years of their lives remembering every centimeter of London when they can just enter a goal on a computer monitor and be led?

Anyway, tell the driver I talked to. Meanwhile, Uber is still active in London while appealing against a 30 September ruling by the city's transport authority to defer its licence to use. Official hearings on the appellate case will not begin until 30 April, but even if Uber finally victories this fight, the London taxi driver swears to keep the knowledge pertinent.

Looks like someone droped a saucepan of pasta on the ground. With 607 sq. m. London is also immensely large, and it is packed with 8. 7 million inhabitants, all trying to get somewhere. It' not that London hasn't thought about it - after the great fire of 1666, London designer Christopher Wren (famous for St Paul's Cathedral) suggested reshaping the town with large arcades on a raster.

London was reconstructed the way it was. and why do you really want that? However, if you only have somewhere to go - such as taking a cab to take a train London can be a confusing jumble of small, one-sided streets suffocated with road and road designations that either vary without notice or repeat themselves many a time.

Knowledge offers more than just a card. Instead of depending on an application or a shredded copy of the London A-Z guide, your intuition allows cab riders to explore the town quickly and effectively. 28-year-old Asher Moses is CEO of Sherbet London, a Dalston-based business that hires out cabs to chauffeurs, operates a black cab fleet as well as arranging cab advertisements.

Ascribing the knowledge that it has enabled him to see his way through London almost like a reflection. "You have the image of London," he says. "The knowledge was created after the Great Exposition of 1851, when the cabmen ('horse-drawn carriages' that went before the contemporary taxi) could not find their way from Hyde Park, where the show took place, to any other place.

Rich civilians were so angry that policemen began to plan the quickest route between different points in London to avoid mess. Rather than being popular, the races are designed to cover the six-mile range around the Charing Cross Station, which the knowledge formally encompasses. An 1979 (and 2017) movie entitled "The Knowledge", which follows a group of promising taxi drivers under the eyes of a rigorous inspector, makes it clear.

Moses' firm also owns a knowledge college run by London's private sector, where long-time taxi riders provide run strategy to would-be riders like Pearson. Also, the Ecole is publishing educational handbooks and guidelines. Knowledge acquisition is a great form of schooling, says Moses. "Lesson times are useful, but the best way to study London is to get on a motorbike and see for yourself.

One sees them everywhere in London: "Knowledge Boys" (and girls) drive through the town with a card attached to a plank above the handlebar. I need you to get out there and feeling London, you know? "Nobody neglects to know. And the first stage is a 25-question multiple-choice test on the Blue Book run.

At each performance, a supervisor asks the applicant four question about the quickest way between any two points in London. Sherbet' s Tony Norris, who has been a cab driver and trainer for 31 years, says that performance is also about trying to test a person's personality. He' s in the bloody cabbing.

Knowledge is a slogan - it took two years - but perseverance is the secret. "Nobody neglects knowledge," he says. Go through the finals, a stand-alone performance testing 25 races in the London outskirts, and you have your own tag. Since most candidates also work part-time during their knowledge studies, the mean processing period for the whole procedure is three to four years.

" As I was talking to Pearson at Sherbet's High, he was study for what he was hoping would be his last 56-day gig the next theater. There is a small class-room next to a courtyard, which is covered with parts of a cab and looks like a ship-car. By the time I came in, Pearson's gaze was trapped on a large card of the centre of London, his face freezing in intensive focus.

By 2011, a University College of London survey found that the humpocampus, the area of the brain associated with remembering, had developed into rabies, which had finished the knowledge. But Mick Smith, a 28-year cab driver, was not part of the test group, but he has no problems to believe the results of the trial.

Sympathetic, with an enthusiastic grin, he peppered his tale with London facts as if referring to the couple of pairs of Pearly King behind us. "That' why taxi drivers think the most important thing is to finish everything. "Smith needed three and a half years to perfect the knowledge when it was managed by the London Metropolitan Police.

In addition to running eight to ten races a night on his roller coaster, he used verbal associative techniques to help him find his way around (WASP is an abbreviation for the four roads - Walpole, Anderson, Sloane and Pelham - that take you quickly from Chelsea to Kensington). "One of the many things that cabbie's have to deal with is the pressure and dedication of acquiring knowledge.

Rather than having to acquire the knowledge, the company's driver only has to undergo a topographic evaluation, a much less challenging test that assesses card reader capabilities. As soon as they have their licence, they can carry a passenger through London with a satellite navigation system. "That' s why taxi riders are so vulnerable to knowledge and what they have been through, and that it is passed on," says Smith.

" And Norris says that knowledge will always gain for GPS. Recently he brought two people to their destinations after an over-driver had taken them in the opposite direction. He' s annoyed to be asked the way by over-drivers. It'?s something you have to study. "Although cab riders have to hire or buy a cab and regularly charge for it, they can keep all the cash they make with fare.

Pearson's final take home depends on how much he works, but with a basic price of 2. 60 lump sums for each trip, black fliers only have to collect three people per hour in order to make the domestic reserve of £7.50. Mose says it can be great but for him the final reward for sharing knowledge is a feeling of liberty that not many other workplaces have.

"He says a London taxi driver can go to work, stop in front of a railway depot and take a workday. Visiting a knowledge college to learn how knowledge works and how taxi drivers adapt to it.