{"id":31140,"date":"2016-10-17T11:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/autonomous-tricycles-could-form-the-basis-of-urban-taxi-systems"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:21:36","slug":"autonomous-tricycles-could-form-the-basis-of-urban-taxi-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/autonomous-tricycles-could-form-the-basis-of-urban-taxi-systems","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous tricycles could form the basis of urban taxi systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4W7zABsktSA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/self-driving-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Self-driving cars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/volvo-fmx-autonomous-truck-testing-boliden-mine-kristineberg-sweden\/45305\/\" target=\"_blank\">trucks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/mercedes-benz-future-bus-with-citypilot\/44398\/\" target=\"_blank\">buses<\/a> might get the bulk of the headlines, but a team at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) is developing a smaller kind of autonomous vehicle. With the aim of providing a relatively inexpensive alternative to owning an autonomous car, the team is creating a self-driving trike that may even open up the possibility of an automated ride-sharing network, like a bike version of <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/self-driving-uber-trial-pittsburgh\/45424\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uber\u2019s<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/nutonomy-self-driving-taxi-public-trial-singapore\/45094\/\" target=\"_blank\">NuTonomy\u2019s<\/a> proposed services.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/uwb-autonomous-trikes\/45946\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/uwb-autonomous-trikes\/45946\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving cars, trucks and buses might get the bulk of the headlines, but a team at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) is developing a smaller kind of autonomous vehicle. With the aim of providing a relatively inexpensive alternative to owning an autonomous car, the team is creating a self-driving trike that may even open [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31140","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\/31140","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60022,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions\/60022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}