{"id":387,"date":"2016-01-15T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/01\/15\/interim-self-driving-cars-get-4-billion-in-testing-funds-3-points-to-be-informed\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:23:00","slug":"interim-self-driving-cars-get-4-billion-in-testing-funds-3-points-to-be-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/interim-self-driving-cars-get-4-billion-in-testing-funds-3-points-to-be-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM Self Driving Cars Get $4 billion in Testing Funds. 3 Points to Be Informed."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Transportation Secretary\u00a0\u00a0Anthony Foxx made the announcement with\u00a0Google and auto manufacturers General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Volvo, Fiat Chrysler and Honda<\/li>\n<li>$4 billion pledged by the federal government to fund research and testing projects<\/li>\n<li>The supportive goals relied on by the Secretary:\n<ul>\n<li>improve the U.S .transportation system<\/li>\n<li>improve vehicle-to-vehicle communications technology<\/li>\n<li>safety via obstacle\u00a0and accident avoidance<\/li>\n<li>75% of the country lives in 11 mega regions, that means self driving cars could save 25,000 lives per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/north-american-international-auto-show\/us-pledges-4-billion-speed-self-driving-cars\">Industry Week |\u00a0US Pledges $4 Billion to Speed Self-Driving Cars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Transportation Secretary\u00a0\u00a0Anthony Foxx made the announcement with\u00a0Google and auto manufacturers General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Volvo, Fiat Chrysler and Honda<\/li>\n<li>$4 billion pledged by the federal government to fund research and testing projects<\/li>\n<li>The supportive goals relied on by the Secretary:\n<ul>\n<li>improve the U.S .transportation system<\/li>\n<li>improve vehicle-to-vehicle communications technology<\/li>\n<li>safety via obstacle\u00a0and accident avoidance<\/li>\n<li>75% of the country lives in 11 mega regions, that means&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-trend","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-self-driving-cars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}