{"id":29000,"date":"2016-08-16T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ford-to-ship-self-driving-cars-without-steering-wheels-brake-or-gas-pedals-by-2021"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:56:35","slug":"ford-to-ship-self-driving-cars-without-steering-wheels-brake-or-gas-pedals-by-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ford-to-ship-self-driving-cars-without-steering-wheels-brake-or-gas-pedals-by-2021","title":{"rendered":"Ford to ship self-driving cars without steering wheels, brake or gas pedals by 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ford-to-ship-self-driving-cars-without-steering-wheels-brake-or-gas-pedals-by-2021.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford says it\u2019s going to deliver self-driving cars by 2021 \u2013 and these will ship in volume, and will also lack steering wheels, brake or gas pedals, offering full Level 4 self-driving features which don\u2019t require a human driver at all, the company announced at a press conference in Palo Alto today.<\/p>\n<p>The car maker says that it has held off making any announcements about when to deliver self-driving vehicles until now because it isn\u2019t in a race to make announcements. But it did say it is making self-driving vehicle deployment a priority, because of the advantages it offers in terms of customer experience and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@markfields\/fords-road-to-full-autonomy-36cb9cca330#.bf756ns0y\">passenger safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/16\/ford-to-ship-self-driving-cars-without-steering-wheels-brake-or-gas-pedals-by-2021\/?sr_share=facebook\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/16\/ford-to-ship-self-driving-...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford says it\u2019s going to deliver self-driving cars by 2021 \u2013 and these will ship in volume, and will also lack steering wheels, brake or gas pedals, offering full Level 4 self-driving features which don\u2019t require a human driver at all, the company announced at a press conference in Palo Alto today. The car maker [\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-29000","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\/29000","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=29000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60766,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000\/revisions\/60766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}