{"id":21513,"date":"2016-02-02T07:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-big-business-future-behind-self-driving-cars-future-of-transportation-p2"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:17","slug":"the-big-business-future-behind-self-driving-cars-future-of-transportation-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-big-business-future-behind-self-driving-cars-future-of-transportation-p2","title":{"rendered":"The Big Business Future Behind Self-Driving Cars: Future of Transportation P2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-big-business-future-behind-self-driving-cars-future-of-transportation-p22.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The year is 2021. You\u2019re driving down the highway on your daily commute. You approach a car that\u2019s stubbornly driving at the max speed limit. You decide to pass this overly law-abiding driver, except when you do, you discover there\u2019s no one in the front seat.<\/p>\n<p>As we learned in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumrun.com\/macro-prediction\/day-your-self-driving-car-future-transportation-p1\" target=\"_blank\">first part<\/a> of our Future of Transportation series, self-driving cars will become publicly available in only a few short years. But due to their component parts, they will likely be far too expensive for the average consumer. Does this mark self-driving cars as an innovation that\u2019s dead in the water? Who\u2019s going to buy these things?<\/p>\n<p>Most articles about autonomous vehicles (AVs) fail to mention that the initial target market for these vehicles won\u2019t be the average consumer\u2014it will be big business. Specifically, taxi and car sharing services. Why? Let\u2019s look at the opportunity self-driving cars represent to one of the biggest taxi\/rideshare services on the planet: Uber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumrun.com\/prediction\/big-business-future-behind-self-driving-cars-future-transportation-p2\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year is 2021. You\u2019re driving down the highway on your daily commute. You approach a car that\u2019s stubbornly driving at the max speed limit. You decide to pass this overly law-abiding driver, except when you do, you discover there\u2019s no one in the front seat. As we learned in the first part of our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21513","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68631,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21513\/revisions\/68631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}