{"id":14484,"date":"2016-09-01T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14484"},"modified":"2016-09-01T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:23:12","slug":"self-driving-taxis-are-a-go-i-repeat-self-driving-taxis-are-a-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/self-driving-taxis-are-a-go-i-repeat-self-driving-taxis-are-a-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Driving Taxis Are A Go. I Repeat Self Driving Taxis Are A Go."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/090116_0520_SelfDriving1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are self-driving taxis now! Sort of. With restrictions. Annabelle Liang and Dee-Ann Durbin reported:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Singapore has the honour of being the first country with self-driving taxis romaing the streets.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not the driverless utopia we&#8217;ve been promised. The taxis only run on specific roads in a single business and residential district, with a limited number of pick-up and drop-off locations.<\/li>\n<li>\u2026And they come with a driver who will take control if anything goes wrong.<\/li>\n<li>But hey credit where credit is due. It&#8217;s the start of the future. The service is basically in beta and is run through an invite-only app.<\/li>\n<li>So far there are only six of the Renault Zoes and Mitsubishi i-MiEV electrics in the taxi fleet.<\/li>\n<li>But the service is expected to rapidly grow as the sophisticated, yet\u00a0miniscule island state looks to ease the congestion on its roads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about some of the technical specifications of the vehicles, one rider&#8217;s experience, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/worlds-first-self-driving-taxis-debut-in-singapore\/ar-BBw1wJO?ocid=News\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/worlds-first-self-driving-taxis-debut-in-singapore\/ar-BBw1wJO?ocid=News\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are self-driving taxis now! Sort of. With restrictions. Annabelle Liang and Dee-Ann Durbin reported: Singapore has the honour of being the first country with self-driving taxis romaing the streets. It&#8217;s not the driverless utopia we&#8217;ve been promised. The taxis only run on specific roads in a single business and residential district, with a limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/090116_0520_SelfDriving1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14487,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions\/14487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}