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Robotaxis pose a fresh threat to London’s traditional cabbies, whose numbers have declined rapidly in recent years.

From the Southgate Centre, on the city’s southern edge, to the downtown financial district, it seemed as if everyone, from students and shopkeepers to cabbies and the cable guy, were wearing Oiler sweaters.

Also part of the convoy with the cabbies were London Ambulance NHS Trust and AA breakdown vehicles.

A charity run by an ex-soldier and police officer hopes to issue 50 kits to cabbies in Cardiff, as part of an expanding network that includes six other UK cities.

“A city has to move,” one cabby said.