{"id":185228,"date":"2024-03-16T08:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T13:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/china-is-beating-the-u-s-on-self-driving-cars-because-of-one-feature"},"modified":"2024-03-16T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T13:16:59","slug":"china-is-beating-the-u-s-on-self-driving-cars-because-of-one-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/china-is-beating-the-u-s-on-self-driving-cars-because-of-one-feature","title":{"rendered":"China is beating the U.S. on self-driving cars because of one feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-beating-the-u-s-on-self-driving-cars-because-of-one-feature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wired writer Mark Andrews tested three Chinese vehicles equipped with semi-autonomous functionality and found them superior to comparable American self-driving systems. The reasons, it seems, boil down to a single feature that American passenger cars have yet to implement: Lidar. From Wired:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-type=\"BlockQuote\" class=\"\"><p>On the flip side, Tesla and General Motors have been grabbing most of the recent headlines when it comes to self-driving cars in the hands of the public, and for all the wrong reasons\u2014mass recalls, suspended licenses, spending cuts, and huge losses.<\/p>\n<p>But in China, a number of companies are steadily\u2014and far more successfully\u2014moving toward a similar destination, but via a different route.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired writer Mark Andrews tested three Chinese vehicles equipped with semi-autonomous functionality and found them superior to comparable American self-driving systems. The reasons, it seems, boil down to a single feature that American passenger cars have yet to implement: Lidar. From Wired: On the flip side, Tesla and General Motors have been grabbing most of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185228","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\/185228","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}