{"id":7012,"date":"2014-12-23T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2014-12-23T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T16:06:32","slug":"googles-self-driving-car-for-reals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7012","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Self-Driving Car &#8211; For Reals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Google-Car.png\" alt=\"Google-Car\" width=\"581\" height=\"458\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Google-Car.png 774w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Google-Car-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After years of research, and a non-working prototype, Google has built a fully-functional self-driving car. It&#8217;s a lot better looking than the fashionless Google Glass, but &#8212; seriously &#8212; it&#8217;s a really wimpy looking car.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBack in the day, Detroit knew the secret: Cars are about sex. Any awkward teenage boy with the proper set of wheels could get a date. I remember some barfly showing me his new car. I commented about it being expensive, and his reply was, &#8220;The payments are worth it because I&#8217;m gonna get a lot of tail!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>My point is that cars are about looks. A Ford Mustang looks like it&#8217;s going to chew through metal to get down the road. The Dodge Charger looks like a muscular cat about to pounce. A Ferrari looks like it just landed from outer space.<\/p>\n<p>The Google car looks as aggressive as Hello Kitty. I want to feed the thing a carrot. No teenage boy getting out of that car can expect to go on a date. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>Hey Google! The concept of a self-driving car is cool! Let the good car designers around the world figure out how to design the thing. Please.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2014\/12\/22\/google-unveils-first-real-build-of-self-driving-vehicle-hopes-to-be-driving-on-public-roads-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Droid Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Droid Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7015,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions\/7015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}