Taxi drivers have traditionally been the anchors of mobility – a trade that's already had to adapt once against the rollout of big tech like Uber, and now faces another reckoning with driverless taxis moving from Silicon Valley pitch decks to real streets.

Nobody's captured the lived experience of people whose jobs are on the line, and what they think.

We're heading out beyond London to talk to taxi drivers directly – about the economics, about what happens to towns that lose another skilled trade, and about whether a Universal Credit safety net is enough when the state's own policies are what's putting people out of work in the first place.