A declining credential in London reveals how technology changes the value of expertise, careers, and human capability.
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 ...
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.
Artificial intelligence may be no match for the navigational skills of London’s taxi drivers, who spend years memorizing the city’s more than 26,000 streets and whose brains have been shown to have ...
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 ...