{"id":27283,"date":"2016-06-28T04:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/this-is-how-google-plans-to-take-control-of-public-transit-and-parking-in-the-u-s"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:46","slug":"this-is-how-google-plans-to-take-control-of-public-transit-and-parking-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/this-is-how-google-plans-to-take-control-of-public-transit-and-parking-in-the-u-s","title":{"rendered":"This is how Google plans to take control of public transit and parking in the U.S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-how-google-plans-to-take-control-of-public-transit-and-parking-in-the-u-s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shutterstock.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet\u2019s \u201cimproved city living\u201d company, Sidewalk Labs \u2013 the group behind the futuristic digital city story a while back \u2013 is already getting its feet wet in real-life situations. The Guardian has obtained documents and emails that detail a proposal made by Sidewalk Labs to the city of Columbus, Ohio. It essentially allows Google to assume control of the city\u2019s public transport and parking system.<\/p>\n<p>The information was obtained through public records laws and details an offer made by Sidewalk Labs to provide the city of Columbus with its cloud-based program called Flow for free. Flow would put the city\u2019s public transit, public parking and transit subsidy program under the control of Google.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-alphabet-control-public-transit-parking-700565\/\">http:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-alphabet-control-publ...ng-700565\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shutterstock. Alphabet\u2019s \u201cimproved city living\u201d company, Sidewalk Labs \u2013 the group behind the futuristic digital city story a while back \u2013 is already getting its feet wet in real-life situations. The Guardian has obtained documents and emails that detail a proposal made by Sidewalk Labs to the city of Columbus, Ohio. It essentially allows Google [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27283","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67080,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27283\/revisions\/67080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}