{"id":18279,"date":"2015-10-09T17:12:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T00:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/greek-town-glimpses-mass-transit-future-driverless-buses"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:41","slug":"greek-town-glimpses-mass-transit-future-driverless-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/greek-town-glimpses-mass-transit-future-driverless-buses","title":{"rendered":"Greek town glimpses mass transit future: driverless buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/greek-town-glimpses-mass-transit-future-driverless-buses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRIKALA, Greece (AP) \u2014 There\u2019ll be no arguing with the driver on this bus: the rides are free and there\u2019s no driver anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Trikala, a rural town in northern Greece, has been chosen to test a driverless bus in real traffic conditions for the first time, part of a European project to revolutionize mass transport and wean its cities off oil dependency over the next 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Trials of the French-built CityMobil2 buses started last week and will last through late February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/a226e2e4a4314eebbfb7603015ecd975\/greek-town-glimpses-mass-transit-future-driverless-buses#overlay-context=article\/b58ec9880a8242f9aa6bdc2fd72028f9\/air-force-french-train-hero-stabbed-california\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIKALA, Greece (AP) \u2014 There\u2019ll be no arguing with the driver on this bus: the rides are free and there\u2019s no driver anyway. Trikala, a rural town in northern Greece, has been chosen to test a driverless bus in real traffic conditions for the first time, part of a European project to revolutionize mass transport [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69387,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions\/69387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}