{"id":126149,"date":"2021-08-12T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/new-driverless-semi-truck-demo"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:23:18","slug":"new-driverless-semi-truck-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/new-driverless-semi-truck-demo","title":{"rendered":"New Driverless Semi Truck Demo"},"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\/puisSy5sSzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen a lot of electric vehicle growth and success stories in the past several years, but one area that\u2019s been a bit of a letdown has been the semi truck market. Unfortunately, we still don\u2019t have the Tesla Semi, and it was recently delayed until 2,022 and a big side area of that market that \u201cfuturists\u201d have long been excited about is potential self-driving trucks. Platoons of self-driving semi trucks are especially exciting since tight, train-like caravans of semi trucks would use far less energy than the current system, and those trucks could much more easily be cost-competitive electric trucks with zero tailpipe emissions. Anyway, though, we\u2019re getting ahead of ourselves again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve seen a lot of electric vehicle growth and success stories in the past several years, but one area that\u2019s been a bit of a letdown has been the semi truck market. Unfortunately, we still don\u2019t have the Tesla Semi, and it was recently delayed until 2,022 and a big side area of that market [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126149","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}