{"id":18436,"date":"2015-10-14T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T04:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tesla-is-mapping-the-earth-cause-your-gps-wont-cut-it-for-self-driving-cars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:28","slug":"tesla-is-mapping-the-earth-cause-your-gps-wont-cut-it-for-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tesla-is-mapping-the-earth-cause-your-gps-wont-cut-it-for-self-driving-cars","title":{"rendered":"Tesla is mapping the Earth, \u2018cause your GPS won\u2019t cut it for self-driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-is-mapping-the-earth-cause-your-gps-wont-cut-it-for-self-driving-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-driving cars require an incredible amount of information to operate safely. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tesla-motors\/\">Tesla<\/a> and Elon Musk know this well.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla Motors <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/14\/tesla-software-7-0\/?utm_cid=hp-hh-pri#Tgc8ldcwIGq5\">formally launched<\/a> its long-awaited Autopilot feature on Wednesday, which is not quite a self-driving car, but rather a higher degree of autonomy. One of the new features of Autopilot: Tesla is creating high-precision digital maps of the Earth using GPS.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/14\/tesla-auotpilot-hands-on\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">I went hands-free in Tesla\u2019s Model S on Autopilot, even though I wasn\u2019t supposed to<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/14\/tesla-high-precision-digital-maps\/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving cars require an incredible amount of information to operate safely. Tesla and Elon Musk know this well. Tesla Motors formally launched its long-awaited Autopilot feature on Wednesday, which is not quite a self-driving car, but rather a higher degree of autonomy. One of the new features of Autopilot: Tesla is creating high-precision digital maps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"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-18436","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\/18436","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69364,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions\/69364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}