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Who's faster around London: a taxi driver or a GPS?

Tom Scott plus2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2022-2026
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Tom Scott races a London black-cab driver who has memorized The Knowledge against a phone GPS across the city, comparing local expertise to navigation software.

HN people link it in discussions of taxi drivers' spatial memory and how cabbies handle roadworks and traffic.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@phist_mcgee2026 · in “Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's”

They also have to remember where roadwork is/was and what kind of traffic is best/worst at a given time. There's a fantastic Tom Scott video on it ▶ this video

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@janosch_1232024 · in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)”

Sure, Tom Scott drives it in this (he doesn't talk about it being electric): ▶ this video Here is a review: link Here is all the media: link My video tutorials are linked above.

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@rhdunn2022 · in “The Decline of the City Grid”

There was a recent Tom Scott video ( ▶ this video ) where he was using a GPS and Tom Hutley (a London cabbie) only relied on his London knowledge to get around, travelling the same distance after reaching certain landmarks. It was interesting to watch.

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