{"id":133245,"date":"2021-12-29T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/alphabets-waymo-unveils-its-new-taxi-no-steering-wheel-or-pedals"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:24:13","slug":"alphabets-waymo-unveils-its-new-taxi-no-steering-wheel-or-pedals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/alphabets-waymo-unveils-its-new-taxi-no-steering-wheel-or-pedals","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet\u2019s Waymo Unveils Its New Taxi: No Steering Wheel or Pedals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphabets-waymo-unveils-its-new-taxi-no-steering-wheel-or-pedals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More headroom, more legroom, more room in general.<\/p>\n<p>A new design for an autonomous taxi without a steering wheel or pedals has been unveiled by Waymo. The company, which has partnered with the Chinese automaker Geely, announced this week its intention to build a Zeekr minivan filled with passenger seats and little much else.<\/p>\n<p>The minivan will be all-electric and self-driving as in being designed and developed in Gothenburg, Sweden. According to the US-based Waymo, the robot minivan will be added to its existing fleet \u201cin the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came via a blog post where Waymo gave a hint as to some of Zeekr\u2019s planned features. According to Waymo, the Zeekr will have \u201ca flat floor for more accessible entry, easy ingress, and egress thanks to a B-pillarless design, low step-in height, generous head and legroom, and fully adjustable seats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More headroom, more legroom, more room in general. A new design for an autonomous taxi without a steering wheel or pedals has been unveiled by Waymo. The company, which has partnered with the Chinese automaker Geely, announced this week its intention to build a Zeekr minivan filled with passenger seats and little much else. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133245","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}