{"id":23249,"date":"2016-03-08T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/ford-hopes-youll-watch-movies-in-self-driving-cars"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:54:22","slug":"ford-hopes-youll-watch-movies-in-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/ford-hopes-youll-watch-movies-in-self-driving-cars","title":{"rendered":"Ford hopes you\u2019ll watch movies in self-driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If and when self-driving cars become a practical reality<\/a>, you\u2019ll probably want something to do during your journeys besides chatting with passengers<\/a> or checking your phone. Thankfully, Ford might have an answer. It recently obtained a patent<\/a> for an \u201cautonomous vehicle entertainment system\u201d that would let you watch videos when you\u2019re hands-free. Kick your vehicle into self-driving mode and a projector system could swing into action, complete with its own screen \u2014 yes, you could watch a movie while you\u2019re on the way to visit family. Think of it as in-flight entertainment<\/a>, just grounded.<\/p>\n

As with most patents, there\u2019s no certainty that Ford will ever use this. While the car maker is serious about autonomous vehicles<\/a>, it could just as easily resort to flat-panel displays and other less dramatic hardware. There are some safety concerns, too. Do you really want the driver to be completely oblivious to road hazards? For this to work, driverless car tech will have to advance to the point where it\u2019s truly reliable \u2014 where you can watch a 2-hour flick without worrying that your car might plow into a bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If and when self-driving cars become a practical reality, you\u2019ll probably want something to do during your journeys besides chatting with passengers or checking your phone. Thankfully, Ford might have an answer. It recently obtained a patent for an \u201cautonomous vehicle entertainment system\u201d that would let you watch videos when you\u2019re hands-free. Kick your vehicle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249","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=23249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50935,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions\/50935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}