A stupid idea to try to go to the city limits by car and to look for one, albeit expensive parking. Where the city limit of London? And where does the district begin, where it is no longer allowed to drive a car? You recognize the traffic signs, but not a possibility to turn. Two weeks later, already at home, you receive a nice 70 euros photo of your car.

How many times could have a taxi with the money. London taxis are famous. No, not so much the vehicles than rather the drivers. Why? Because around the whole world there is not 'The Knowledge'. It is a test in which you have to know exactly the road network of London.

The exam is mostly orally and has high failure rates. Thus, the duration of training is not foreseeable, in the most favourable case two years. If you are still working while preparing, it can also easily be five years. Who does not pass, needs to come back. In the case of very low score, one has to repeat already passed examinations.

Incredible, what they ask and expect, for example, which play is currently running in the XX. Thus, London taxi drivers are also tour guides. But if you've made it, you can buy one of these strange vehicles and work independently. There are no fixed working hours and licenses usual in other major cities. The hard training limits access to the profession well enough.

It is even through comparative studies scientifically proven (see link above) that the number of gray cells has increased in the posterior hippocampus of taxi drivers after passed examination. Incidentally, London taxis need navigation devices anyway, eg if someone gives very inaccurate information and as a warning of cameras. Otherwise, just proved that London taxi drivers are usually faster if they rely on their own knowledge as the Navi, increasingly from traffic density.