No two cities associate iconoclasm and uniformity with their taxi cabs like New York or London. While most assume the differences stop at color–yellow for New York, black for London–a stark contrast ...

Analysing the brains of London's taxi drivers could be key to improving AI navigation systems and Alzheimer’s research, scientists say. University College London researchers have found that London ...

Step into the world of London taxi drivers as they share unforgettable stories about the famous faces they've met. Hear incredible encounters with celebrities like Graham Norton, Samuel L. Jackson, ...

A taxi driver calls out the names of streets and the turns on his path while the traject appears segment by segment on the map. An international team of scientists, including a principal investigator ...

Researchers have measured the thinking time of London taxi drivers -- famous for their knowledge of more than 26,000 streets across the city -- as part of a study into the future of AI route-mapping.

Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers — transformed the understanding of memory, revealing that a key ...

Courting disaster? London cab with built-in charger. CC-licensed, thanks to Lars Plougmann on flickr. So you’re shopping, or going ice skating, or heading to some place where hot mulled wine makes the ...

It takes 3-4 years to become a licensed London taxi cab driver, because the test is so hard. Those are years spent studying for a comprehensive test of the London map. A new study in Current Biology, ...

Researchers have measured the thinking time of London taxi drivers - famous for their knowledge of more than 26,000 streets across the city - as part of a study into the future of AI route-mapping.