{"id":25687,"date":"2016-05-13T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/google-will-pay-people-40000-a-year-not-to-drive-their-self-driving-cars"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:51:44","slug":"google-will-pay-people-40000-a-year-not-to-drive-their-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/google-will-pay-people-40000-a-year-not-to-drive-their-self-driving-cars","title":{"rendered":"Google will pay people $40,000 a year not to drive their self driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-will-pay-people-40000-a-year-not-to-drive-their-self-driving-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about a change of career? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/tag\/google\/\">Google\u2019s<\/a> got a heck of a job offer for you. They\u2019ll potentially pay up to $40,000 a year for you to not drive one of their autonomous cars. That\u2019s based on base pay for $20 per hour working full time hours (40 hours a week).<\/p>\n<p>There has to be some kind of catch, you say? Of course there is. Google isn\u2019t just planning on throwing money at people to ride around with an AI chauffeur while sucking on slurpees and binge-watching Netflix from the non-driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>No, you\u2019ll <em>actually have to pay attention<\/em>. Google\u2019s cars have logged plenty of hours on real roads, but there are still going to be times when the car doesn\u2019t know how to handle a situation \u2014 say, sharing a narrow section of road <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/google-self-driving-car-hits-bus-shoulders-the-blame-1648633\/\">with an oncoming bus<\/a>. Since there\u2019s no way of knowing when you\u2019ll need to lend a helping hand (or foot), you need to be ever vigilant behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/google-will-pay-people-80000-to-not-drive-their-self-driving-cars-1655060\/\">http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/google-will-pay-people-80000-to-not...s-1655060\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about a change of career? Google\u2019s got a heck of a job offer for you. They\u2019ll potentially pay up to $40,000 a year for you to not drive one of their autonomous cars. That\u2019s based on base pay for $20 per hour working full time hours (40 hours a week). There has to be [\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-25687","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\/25687","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=25687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50502,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687\/revisions\/50502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}