{"id":31375,"date":"2016-10-25T11:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:20:38","slug":"self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run","title":{"rendered":"Self-Driving Truck\u2019s First Mission: A Beer Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The futurists of Silicon Valley may not have seen this one coming: The first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/19\/technology\/uber-self-driving-cars-otto-trucks.html\">Otto<\/a>, the Uber-owned self-driving vehicle operation, announced the completion of its first commercial delivery, having delivered its beer load from Fort Collins, Colo., to Colorado Springs, a roughly 120-mile trip on Interstate 25.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Uber has predicted a future in which you can ride in a self-driving car that will take you where you want to go, no driver necessary. But the idea that commercial trucking could be done by robot is a relatively new idea \u2014 and a potentially controversial one, given the possibility that robots could one day replace human drivers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/26\/technology\/self-driving-trucks-first-mission-a-beer-run.html?_r=3\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/26\/technology\/self-driving-tr....html?_r=3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The futurists of Silicon Valley may not have seen this one coming: The first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer. On Tuesday, Otto, the Uber-owned self-driving vehicle operation, announced the completion of its first commercial delivery, having delivered its beer load from Fort Collins, Colo., [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31375","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\/31375","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=31375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59957,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31375\/revisions\/59957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}