{"id":99795,"date":"2019-12-16T00:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/lofty-promises-for-autonomous-cars-unfulfilled"},"modified":"2019-12-16T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:22:47","slug":"lofty-promises-for-autonomous-cars-unfulfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/lofty-promises-for-autonomous-cars-unfulfilled","title":{"rendered":"Lofty promises for autonomous cars unfulfilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lofty-promises-for-autonomous-cars-unfulfilled.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first driverless cars were supposed to be deployed on the roads of American cities in 2019, but just a few days before the end of the year, the lofty promises of car manufacturers and Silicon Valley remain far from becoming reality.<\/p>\n<p>Recent accidents, such as those involving Tesla cars equipped with Autopilot, a driver assistance software, have shown that \u201cthe technology is not ready,\u201d said Dan Albert, critic and author of the book \u201cAre We There Yet?\u201d on the history of the American automobile.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the optimistic sales pitch that autonomous cars would help reduce road deaths \u2014 40,000 every year in the United States, mostly due to human error \u2014 because these vehicles themselves have caused deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first driverless cars were supposed to be deployed on the roads of American cities in 2019, but just a few days before the end of the year, the lofty promises of car manufacturers and Silicon Valley remain far from becoming reality. Recent accidents, such as those involving Tesla cars equipped with Autopilot, a driver [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99795","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\/99795","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}