{"id":25821,"date":"2016-05-17T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/u-s-startup-pursues-self-driving-semis-but-big-rig-bots-still-down-the-road"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:21","slug":"u-s-startup-pursues-self-driving-semis-but-big-rig-bots-still-down-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/u-s-startup-pursues-self-driving-semis-but-big-rig-bots-still-down-the-road","title":{"rendered":"U.S. startup pursues self-driving semis but big-rig bots still down the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-startup-pursues-self-driving-semis-but-big-rig-bots-still-down-the-road.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do see delays of self-driving 18 wheelers across the US. Too many laws &amp; regulations would need to change, consumer safety &amp; protection advocacy groups, etc. will delay this in the US.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>To many, that might seem a frightening idea, even at a time when a few dozen of Google\u2019s driverless cars are cruising city streets in California, Texas, Washington and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>But Anthony Levandowski, a robot-loving engineer who helped steer Google\u2019s self-driving technology, is convinced autonomous big rigs will be the next big thing on the road to a safer transportation system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2016\/05\/18\/business\/tech\/u-s-startup-pursues-self-driving-semis-big-rig-bots-still-road\/\">http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2016\/05\/18\/business\/tech\/u-...till-road\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do see delays of self-driving 18 wheelers across the US. Too many laws &amp; regulations would need to change, consumer safety &amp; protection advocacy groups, etc. will delay this in the US. SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25821","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\/25821","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67479,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions\/67479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}