{"id":72135,"date":"2017-08-24T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/self-driving-lorries-to-be-tested-on-uk-roads"},"modified":"2017-08-24T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:22:25","slug":"self-driving-lorries-to-be-tested-on-uk-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/self-driving-lorries-to-be-tested-on-uk-roads","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Self-driving\u2019 lorries to be tested on UK roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-driving-lorries-to-be-tested-on-uk-roads.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small convoys of partially driverless lorries will be tried out on major British roads by the end of next year, the government has announced.<\/p>\n<p>A contract has been awarded to the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to carry out the tests of vehicle \u201cplatoons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Up to three lorries will travel in formation, with acceleration and braking controlled by the lead vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-41038220\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-41038220<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small convoys of partially driverless lorries will be tried out on major British roads by the end of next year, the government has announced. A contract has been awarded to the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to carry out the tests of vehicle \u201cplatoons\u201d. Up to three lorries will travel in formation, with acceleration and braking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135","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=72135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}