{"id":104144,"date":"2020-03-23T06:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/no-autonomous-trucks-wait-what-science-fiction-in-the-news"},"modified":"2020-03-23T06:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:24:18","slug":"no-autonomous-trucks-wait-what-science-fiction-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/no-autonomous-trucks-wait-what-science-fiction-in-the-news","title":{"rendered":"No Autonomous Trucks? Wait, What?: Science Fiction in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UCNSZKXvi64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No Autonomous Trucks? Wait, What? \u2018\u2026it resembled conventional human-operated transportation vehicles, but with one exception \u2014 there was no driver\u2019s cabin.\u2019 \u2014 Philip K. Dick, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Traffic Tunnel Challenge Is Boring \u2018The car vibrated\u2026 threading the maze of local tubes.\u2019 \u2014 Jack Vance, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>HVSD, Kitty Hawk\u2019s Electric Plane Very quiet commuter plane offers VTOL service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Autonomous Trucks? Wait, What? \u2018\u2026it resembled conventional human-operated transportation vehicles, but with one exception \u2014 there was no driver\u2019s cabin.\u2019 \u2014 Philip K. Dick, 1955. Elon Musk\u2019s Traffic Tunnel Challenge Is Boring \u2018The car vibrated\u2026 threading the maze of local tubes.\u2019 \u2014 Jack Vance, 1954. HVSD, Kitty Hawk\u2019s Electric Plane Very quiet commuter plane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}