{"id":5793,"date":"2014-03-20T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2014-03-20T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:10:22","slug":"googles-page-launch-automated-cars-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Page: &#8220;Launch Automated Cars by 2017&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/m.bbc.com\/news\/technology-26658892\">BBC<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google plans to launch its automated cars on the roads by 2017. The project has been a personal obsession for 18 years, he told the Ted audience.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&#8220;It started when I was at college in Michigan. I was waiting for the bus and it was cold and snowing,&#8221; he said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;He believes that automated cars can help save lives &#8211; currently 20 million people are injured each ear in car accidents and in the US crashes are the biggest cause of death for the under 35s.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;He finished the interview with a call to firms to embrace new technologies.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&#8220;Most businesses fail because they miss the future,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> via <a href=\"http:\/\/tabdump.com\/blog\/2014\/3\/20\/march-20-46-tabs\">Tabdump<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Google plans to launch its automated cars on the roads by 2017. The project has been a personal obsession for 18 years, he told the Ted audience.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;It started when I was at college in Michigan. I was waiting for the bus and it was cold and snowing,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;He believes that automated cars can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5794,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}