{"id":27398,"date":"2016-06-30T09:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/this-obscure-anime-predicted-so-much-about-the-future-of-cars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:11:01","slug":"this-obscure-anime-predicted-so-much-about-the-future-of-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/this-obscure-anime-predicted-so-much-about-the-future-of-cars","title":{"rendered":"This Obscure Anime Predicted So Much About The Future Of Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-obscure-anime-predicted-so-much-about-the-future-of-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a future full of electric cars where everyone\u2019s a passenger. Where traffic is not only managed but <em>controlled<\/em> by a digital network. Where on-demand ride-sharing services have become the norm, and the only human drivers are emergency crews behind the wheel of super-fast vintage \u201cantiques\u201d tasked with taking down AI cars that have gone haywire.<\/p>\n<p>Some of that sounds like the vision of today\u2019s automakers, city planners, tech visionaries and the like, who all salivate at the thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/elon-musks-thinks-drivers-could-be-outlawed-in-the-fut-1691976679\">removing the human element from our roadways<\/a> as much as possible. Recent developments in driverless technology are surprisingly close to the vision of autonomy portrayed in K\u014dsuke Fujishima\u2019s 2000 Japanese anime series <em>\u00e9X-Driver<\/em>, which has even more to say about what could become our future in transportation.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e9X-Driver<\/em> follows the adventures of Lisa, Lorna, and their new teammate S\u014dichi as they wrangle autonomous vehicles that have run amok. These out-of-control \u201cAI cars\u201d endanger not only the helpless passengers inside, but other road users as well. Not looking forward to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/lets-call-them-autonomobiles-now-1719500931\">autonomobiles<\/a>\u201d? This could be the perfect gig for you.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/how-this-obscure-anime-predicted-so-much-about-the-futu-1780951876\">http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/how-this-obscure-anime-predicted-so-much...1780951876<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a future full of electric cars where everyone\u2019s a passenger. Where traffic is not only managed but controlled by a digital network. Where on-demand ride-sharing services have become the norm, and the only human drivers are emergency crews behind the wheel of super-fast vintage \u201cantiques\u201d tasked with taking down AI cars that have gone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27398","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\/27398","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61356,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398\/revisions\/61356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}