{"id":35510,"date":"2017-03-21T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/where-were-going-we-dont-need-roads"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:08:15","slug":"where-were-going-we-dont-need-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/where-were-going-we-dont-need-roads","title":{"rendered":"Where we\u2019re going, we don\u2019t need roads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I can conceive that in saner circumstances, Tesla Model X might never have come to be. But the strongest blades are forged in the hottest fires, and for those that survive the heat, something very special is born.<\/p>\n

Model X is special in a way that the automotive industry hasn\u2019t been able to conceive in a very long time. It is an all-electric SUV that can seat up to seven people with bucketloads of cargo space to spare. It is a sporty all-wheel drive car that can throw instant and ungodly amounts of torque at the tarmac. It is a serene cruiser with its silent drive and breathtaking panoramic windshield. It is, in essence, an eight-eyed falcon with a supercomputer brain that dreams of a future of fully autonomous driving. And I had to have it.<\/p>\n

As a Model S owner, I had already experienced and enjoyed more than a year of zero emissions Tesla driving. I knew what great things the car was capable of. I\u2019d felt the thrill of instant torque, I\u2019d fallen in love with the one-foot, regenerative braking driving experience, and I\u2019d been chauffeured up and down the M1 by my very own Autopilot. Where the Model S presented itself as an all electric car \u2014 a subtle statement and proof of concept about a future of green but powerful motoring, Model X presented itself as a bold vision for what a car could be, if its only blueprint were imagination.<\/p>\n

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I can conceive that in saner circumstances, Tesla Model X might never have come to be. But the strongest blades are forged in the hottest fires, and for those that survive the heat, something very special is born. Model X is special in a way that the automotive industry hasn\u2019t been able to conceive in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510","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\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58343,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35510\/revisions\/58343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}