{"id":30406,"date":"2016-09-22T23:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/get-ready-for-freeways-that-ban-human-drivers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:26:12","slug":"get-ready-for-freeways-that-ban-human-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/get-ready-for-freeways-that-ban-human-drivers","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready For Freeways That Ban Human Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/get-ready-for-freeways-that-ban-human-drivers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington this week could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driver.<\/p>\n<p>While banning people from driving may seem like something from a Kurt Vonnegut short story, it\u2019s the logical endgame of a technology that could dramatically reduce \u2014 or even eliminate \u2014 the 1.25 million road deaths a year globally. Human error is the cause of 94 percent of roadway fatalities, U.S. safety regulators say, and robot drivers never get drunk, sleepy or distracted.<\/p>\n<p>Autonomous cars already have \u201csuperhuman intelligence\u201d that allows them to see around corners and avoid crashes, said Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive at Nvidia Corp., a maker of high-speed processors for self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-22\/robot-rides-may-force-error-prone-human-motorists-off-the-road\">http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016&#45;09&#45;22\/ro...f-the-road<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington this week could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driver. While banning people from driving may seem like something from a Kurt Vonnegut short story, it\u2019s the logical endgame of a technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60304,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30406\/revisions\/60304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}