A study reveals that London taxi drivers prioritize complex and distant junctions during their initial "offline thinking" phase when planning routes, rather than sequentially considering streets.

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.

An international team of scientists, including a principal investigator in neuroscience from the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, has analysed the ...

Brains are nothing like computers and human cognition operates in fundamentally different ways to current artificial intelligence systems. Human ...

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 ...

Eleanor Maguire, who has died from cancer aged 54, carried out groundbreaking research on human memory, making headlines with ...

Nov. 26, 2024 — Healing the gut may be the key to improving long-term recovery in stroke patients, scientists have found. The latest of multiple studies highlights the potential of this novel ...

Taxi prices are set by the Stratford Police Services Board and are now a flat rate of between $14 and $16. City Cab, which has more than 50 full- and part-time drivers, charges $14. The city’s bylaw ...

In Wuhan, drivers are facing a modern challenge that doesn’t involve human competitors. A pioneering initiative featuring 400 autonomous taxis, managed by the tech giant Baidu, has traditional taxi ...

A man has been charged after an incident captured in a viral video showed a taxi passenger grabbing the wheel of a vehicle attempting to force a collision. The driver’s dashcam footage shows a ...

Tumor-Secreted Protein May Hold the Key to Better Treatments for Deadly Brain Tumor Jan. 8, 2025 — A study has found targeting a protein called endocan and its related signaling pathway could be ...