{"id":88998,"date":"2019-03-28T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-war-to-remotely-control-self-driving-cars-heats-up"},"modified":"2019-03-28T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:42:23","slug":"the-war-to-remotely-control-self-driving-cars-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-war-to-remotely-control-self-driving-cars-heats-up","title":{"rendered":"The War to Remotely Control Self-Driving Cars Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-war-to-remotely-control-self-driving-cars-heats-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Livingston is sitting comfortably in his office in Portland, Oregon, when he appears on the screens inside the car and announces he\u2019ll be our teleoperator this afternoon. A moment later, the MKZ pulls into traffic, responding not to the man in the driver\u2019s seat, but to Livingston, who\u2019s sitting in front of a bank of screens displaying feeds from the four cameras on the car\u2019s roof, working the kind of steering wheel and pedals serious players use for games like Forza Motorsport. Livingston is a software engineer for Designated Driver, a new company that\u2019s getting into teleoperations, the official name for remotely controlling self- driving vehicles.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Designated Driver is just the latest competitor to enter the market for the teleoperation tech that will make robo-cars work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/designated-driver-teleoperations-self-driving-cars\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/designated-driver-teleoperations-self-driving-cars\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Livingston is sitting comfortably in his office in Portland, Oregon, when he appears on the screens inside the car and announces he\u2019ll be our teleoperator this afternoon. A moment later, the MKZ pulls into traffic, responding not to the man in the driver\u2019s seat, but to Livingston, who\u2019s sitting in front of a bank of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88998","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\/88998","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}