{"id":19347,"date":"2015-11-16T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/self-driving-cars-may-become-a-mass-reality-faster-than-you-think"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:36","slug":"self-driving-cars-may-become-a-mass-reality-faster-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/self-driving-cars-may-become-a-mass-reality-faster-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving cars may become a mass reality faster than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-driving-cars-may-become-a-mass-reality-faster-than-you-think.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a few years ago, automated parking was a revolutionary new technology \u2014 now it comes as a standard option in some production models. This is how I believe driverless vehicles will come to be accepted in the future,\u201d says Wei-Bin Zhang, IEEE fellow and a researcher engineer at the California PATH program, Institute of Transportation Studies of University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right \u2014 we may be on the brink of an all-out self-driving car revolution.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already seen cars that can stay in their lanes and apply the breaks by themselves, so to many, an autonomous car is just the next step in the natural progression. And the automotive industry is taking this very seriously. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/intelligent-transportation-system-market-by-component-system-application-and-geography---analysis-forecast-to-2015---2020-2015-08-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to a study<\/a> by Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), the self-driving market is estimated to grow to $33.89 billion in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/11\/16\/self-driving-cars-brandspeak\/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-tech-link#F_zHO5HUiRqa\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust a few years ago, automated parking was a revolutionary new technology \u2014 now it comes as a standard option in some production models. This is how I believe driverless vehicles will come to be accepted in the future,\u201d says Wei-Bin Zhang, IEEE fellow and a researcher engineer at the California PATH program, Institute of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19347","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\/19347","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=19347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69193,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19347\/revisions\/69193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}