{"id":13615,"date":"2015-03-04T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13615"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:09","slug":"why-silicon-valley-is-eager-to-take-on-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/why-silicon-valley-is-eager-to-take-on-detroit","title":{"rendered":"Why Silicon Valley Is Eager to Take on Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularityhub<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">We tend to think of cars as a mature technology. They\u2019re good enough to be boring. But something weird is happening. Silicon Valley is eyeing the car business. First it was Tesla, Google\u2014even Uber. Now, it\u2019s Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-02-19\/apple-said-to-be-targeting-car-production-as-soon-as-2020\">According to Bloomberg<\/a>, Apple has a team of 200 secretly working on a car. They\u2019ve evidently been luring talent away from Tesla with lucrative bonuses and comp. And battery-maker A123 Systems filed a lawsuit against Apple for poaching its employees. The rumor? Apple\u2019s aiming to develop an electric car by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds bizarre\u2014but it might not be that crazy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/02\/24\/why-silicon-valley-is-eager-to-take-on-detroit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularityhub We tend to think of cars as a mature technology. They\u2019re good enough to be boring. But something weird is happening. Silicon Valley is eyeing the car business. First it was Tesla, Google\u2014even Uber. Now, it\u2019s Apple. According to Bloomberg, Apple has a team of 200 secretly working on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46595,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions\/46595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}