{"id":88121,"date":"2019-02-23T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-warn-self-driving-cars-could-worsen-inequality"},"modified":"2019-02-23T16:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T00:02:23","slug":"scientists-warn-self-driving-cars-could-worsen-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-warn-self-driving-cars-could-worsen-inequality","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Warn Self-Driving Cars Could Worsen Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-warn-self-driving-cars-could-worsen-inequality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne way or another, this technology is coming. These cars are already being tested in cities,\u201d Richard Ezike, the lead author of the study, said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/news\/press_release\/self-driving-vehicles-equity#.XHAX_-hKhPY\">organization-published press release<\/a>. \u201cIf we do not plan and set out thoughtful policies, driverless cars could exacerbate the challenges we see in transportation today \u2014 especially for underserved communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Take the Bus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The researchers argue that cities that introduce autonomous vehicles should also invest in public transit, to make sure that those who have longer commutes and would get stuck in the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/san-francisco-traffic-uber-lyft\">newly-introduced congestion<\/a> can still find and make it to their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/self-driving-cars-worsen-inequality\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/self-driving-cars-worsen-inequality<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne way or another, this technology is coming. These cars are already being tested in cities,\u201d Richard Ezike, the lead author of the study, said in an organization-published press release. \u201cIf we do not plan and set out thoughtful policies, driverless cars could exacerbate the challenges we see in transportation today \u2014 especially for underserved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88121","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\/88121","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}