Who's faster around London: a taxi driver or a GPS?
Tom Scott plus2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2022-2026
3.5M views · 3 years ago · demo · evergreen
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
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
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.
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.