{"id":1768,"date":"2008-03-13T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/13\/robots-poised-to-take-over-tra\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T18:13:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T18:13:46","slug":"robots-poised-to-take-over-tra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/robots-poised-to-take-over-tra\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Poised To Take Over Transportation Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-68fd37653ec5658f953609a75c66cfdb-robot_cab.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-68fd37653ec5658f953609a75c66cfdb-robot_cab.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>According to recent reports, it is possible that Robots will take over personal human transport operations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The RobuCab, an autonomous vehicle about the size of a golf cart, trundles at 10kph along a quiet French street. Alarmingly, it looks like it is driving itself. Surprisingly, that is more or less true.The RobuCab is following the line of the kerb. One embedded system trains a camera on the path edge, another tracks the angle and direction of the kerb, while others control the gearing and acceleration. Combined, they enable the RobuCab to drive along the road.It is an astonishing demonstration of just how sophisticated embedded systems, and the software that controls them, can become. But there are some serious problems to surmount before this level of sophistication becomes common.<a href=\"http:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/ictresults\/index.cfm\/section\/news\/tpl\/article\/id\/89601\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent reports, it is possible that Robots will take over personal human transport operations. The RobuCab, an autonomous vehicle about the size of a golf cart, trundles at 10kph along a quiet French street. Alarmingly, it looks like it is driving itself. Surprisingly, that is more or less true.The RobuCab is following the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/robots-poised-to-take-over-tra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robots Poised To Take Over Transportation Industry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[91],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-sw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}