{"id":975,"date":"2005-01-29T13:19:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T08:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2009-07-27T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T04:41:52","slug":"smart-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/smart-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-976\" title=\"robotcar372\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/robotcar372.jpg\" alt=\"robotcar372\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The MIT Smart Cities research team\u2019s car. Image: Franco Vairani\/MIT Department of Architecture<\/p>\n<p>Two recent articles reveal the possible future of cars &#8211; powered with intelligent algorithms, semi-autonomous, and made for urban and natural terrain.<\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"Wired's Say Hello to Stanley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.01\/stanley.html\">Say Hello to Stanley in Wired<\/a>:<br \/>\n\u201cStanford\u2019s souped-up Volkswagen blasted through the Mojave Desert, blew away the competition, and won Darpa\u2019s $2 million Grand Challenge. Buckle up, human &#8211; the driverless car of the future is gaining on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"Robot car: streets ahead in cities of the future \" href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/higher\/news\/story\/0,9830,1674780,00.html\">Robot car: streets ahead in cities of the future<\/a>:<br \/>\n\u201c&#8230;the MIT team started from scratch to come up with their own concept: a stackable, shareable, electric, two-passenger car. \u201cImagine a shopping cart &#8211; a vehicle that can stack &#8211; you can take the first vehicle out of a stack and off you go,\u201d says Mr Chin. \u201cThese stacks would be placed throughout the city. A good place would be outside a subway station or a bus line or an airport, places where there\u2019s a convergence of transportation lines and people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Smart Cities research team\u2019s car. Image: Franco Vairani\/MIT Department of Architecture Two recent articles reveal the possible future of cars &#8211; powered with intelligent algorithms, semi-autonomous, and made for urban and natural terrain. From Say Hello to Stanley in Wired: \u201cStanford\u2019s souped-up Volkswagen blasted through the Mojave Desert, blew away the competition, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[317,219,318,294],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-robot","tag-robots","tag-smart","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}