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The knowledge is not only the streets, they also have to memorise "points of interest" which includes things like pubs and restaurants.

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But that's illogical. If you know the bar and restaurant scene in London, it's very volatile. Restaurants and bars change names at an incredible rate. "The knowledge" will have expired by the time you've learned it.

You must not have read the article.

There's an expectation that drivers keep their knowledge current. Certainly the examiners keep their knowledge current and test based on that.

I did. I really don't think you understand the scale of the problem.

It's certainly a large scale problem, but a smaller problem than learning all the points of interest in the first place ... no one is saying it's easy ...

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