{"id":5135,"date":"2013-05-28T05:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2013-05-28T05:41:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:41:43","slug":"at-high-speed-on-the-road-to-a-driverless-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5135","title":{"rendered":"At High Speed, on the Road to a Driverless Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/28\/science\/on-the-road-in-mobileyes-self-driving-car.html\">John Markoff<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JERUSALEM \u2014 Last month, on a freeway from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, I sat in the driver\u2019s seat of an Audi A7 while software connected to a video camera on the windshield drove the car at speeds up to 65 miles an hour \u2014 making a singular statement about the rapid progress in the development of self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>While the widely publicized Google car and other autonomous vehicles are festooned with cameras, radar and the laser range finders called lidars, this one is distinctive because of the simplicity and the relatively low cost of its system \u2014 just a few hundred dollars\u2019 worth of materials. \u201cThe idea is to get the best out of camera-only autonomous driving,\u201d said Gaby Hayon, senior vice president for research and development at Mobileye Vision Technologies, the Israeli company that created the system in the Audi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Markoff: JERUSALEM \u2014 Last month, on a freeway from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, I sat in the driver\u2019s seat of an Audi A7 while software connected to a video camera on the windshield drove the car at speeds up to 65 miles an hour \u2014 making a singular statement about the rapid progress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}