{"id":34782,"date":"2017-02-22T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/ubers-self-driving-cars-are-now-picking-up-passengers-in-arizona"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:08","slug":"ubers-self-driving-cars-are-now-picking-up-passengers-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/ubers-self-driving-cars-are-now-picking-up-passengers-in-arizona","title":{"rendered":"Uber\u2019s self-driving cars are now picking up passengers in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ubers-self-driving-cars-are-now-picking-up-passengers-in-arizona.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost two months to the day after Uber loaded its fleet of self-driving SUVs into the trailer of a self-driving truck and stormed off to Arizona in a self-driving huff, the company is preparing to launch its second experiment (if you don\u2019t count the aborted San Francisco pilot) in autonomous ride-hailing.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s different is that this time, Uber has the blessing from Arizona\u2019s top politician, Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican, who is expected to be \u201cRider Zero\u201d on an autonomous trip along with Anthony Levandowski, VP of Uber\u2019s Advanced Technologies Group. The Arizona pilot comes after California\u2019s Department of Motor Vehicles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/12\/21\/14049070\/uber-san-francisco-self-driving-removed-registration-revoked\">revoked the registration<\/a> of Uber\u2019s 16 self-driving cars because the company refused to apply for the appropriate permits for testing autonomous cars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/2\/21\/14687346\/uber-self-driving-car-arizona-pilot-ducey-california\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/2\/21\/14687346\/uber-self-driving...california<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost two months to the day after Uber loaded its fleet of self-driving SUVs into the trailer of a self-driving truck and stormed off to Arizona in a self-driving huff, the company is preparing to launch its second experiment (if you don\u2019t count the aborted San Francisco pilot) in autonomous ride-hailing. What\u2019s different is that [\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-34782","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\/34782","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=34782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58637,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782\/revisions\/58637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}