{"id":74310,"date":"2017-12-10T00:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/rio-tinto-puts-its-faith-in-driverless-trucks-trains-and-drilling-rigs"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:01:36","slug":"rio-tinto-puts-its-faith-in-driverless-trucks-trains-and-drilling-rigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/rio-tinto-puts-its-faith-in-driverless-trucks-trains-and-drilling-rigs","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto puts its faith in driverless trucks, trains and drilling rigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rio-tinto-puts-its-faith-in-driverless-trucks-trains-and-drilling-rigs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOR millennia, man has broken rocks. Whether with pickaxe or dynamite, their own or animal muscle, in a digger or a diesel truck, thick-necked miners have been at the centre of an industry that supplies the raw materials for almost all industrial activity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21732156-will-it-stop-mining-firm-splurging-over-priced-acquisitions-rio-tinto-puts-its\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21732156-will-it-sto...o-puts-its<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR millennia, man has broken rocks. Whether with pickaxe or dynamite, their own or animal muscle, in a digger or a diesel truck, thick-necked miners have been at the centre of an industry that supplies the raw materials for almost all industrial activity.<\/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-74310","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\/74310","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=74310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74350,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310\/revisions\/74350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}