{"id":8989,"date":"2023-02-17T00:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/its-a-long-term-journey-were-on-taking-a-ride-towards-self-driving-cars\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T00:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:37:53","slug":"its-a-long-term-journey-were-on-taking-a-ride-towards-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/its-a-long-term-journey-were-on-taking-a-ride-towards-self-driving-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a long-term journey we\u2019re on\u2019: taking a ride towards self-driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan\u2019s ServCity project shows how far autonomous vehicles have come and difficulties they still face<\/p>\n<p>The journey in a self-driving Nissan across Woolwich in south-east London begins smoothly enough: fitted with cameras and sensors, the electric car confidently handles pedestrian crossings, vans cutting into its lane without warning and even scurrying jaywalkers.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes an unexpected obstacle: a football-sized rock, fallen from the back of a lorry on to the middle of the road. The specially trained safety driver hastily grabs the steering wheel, taking back control to avoid a nasty crunch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/feb\/17\/taking-ride-self-driving-car-nissan-servcity-autonomous-vehicles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2f66e683f5edcb67e86a0d9143ac0bd2e22252f3\/122_0_1798_1080\/master\/1798.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d75dedec3da5c4efa4cb397b77688b9d\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s a long-term journey we\u2019re on\u2019: taking a ride towards self-driving cars\" \/>Nissan\u2019s ServCity project shows how far autonomous vehicles have come and difficulties they still face<br \/>\nThe journey in a self-driving Nissan across Woolwich in south-east London begins smoothly enough: fitted with cameras and sensors, the electric car confidently handles pedestrian crossings, vans cutting into its lane without warning and even scurrying jaywalkers.<br \/>\nThen comes an unexpected obstacle: a football-sized rock, fallen from the back of a lorry on to the middle of the road. The specially trained safety driver hastily grabs the steering wheel, taking back control to avoid a nasty crunch. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan\u2019s ServCity project shows how far autonomous vehicles have come and difficulties they still face The journey in a self-driving Nissan across Woolwich in south-east London begins smoothly enough: fitted with cameras and sensors, the electric car confidently handles pedestrian crossings, vans cutting into its lane without warning and even scurrying jaywalkers. Then comes an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/its-a-long-term-journey-were-on-taking-a-ride-towards-self-driving-cars\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s a long-term journey we\u2019re on\u2019: taking a ride towards self-driving cars<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}