Addison Lee drivers told to defy bus lane law (and to just say SMIDSY)

That it's anachronistic and archaic? That it doesn't make you a better driver?

I'm not sure why or how learning how to memorise thousands of place names and road names, and routes and shortcuts, is going to do anything other that give me a particularly biased opinion, influenced by the fact that I have to justify to myself at least why I've just spent two to five years learning how to become a sat nav.

It puts future black cab drivers on mopeds or bicycles for 2 to 5 years while they are doing it. Must be a good thing for them to be on the same footing as us for a while.

It also stops them needing to take their eyes of the road to look at a satnav.