{"id":60014,"date":"2016-08-19T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60014"},"modified":"2016-08-19T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:39:03","slug":"file-under-things-mitch-will-never-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60014","title":{"rendered":"File Under &#8220;Things Mitch Will Never Do&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2016-08-18\/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on\">inks deal with Volvo for self-driving cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved. Google, widely regarded as the leader in the field, has been testing its fleet for several years, and Tesla Motors offers Autopilot, essentially a souped-up cruise control that drives the car on the highway. Earlier this week, Ford announced plans for an autonomous ride-sharing service. But none of these companies has yet brought a self-driving car-sharing service to market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m never going to ride in, much less own, a self-driving car.<\/p>\n<p>Partly, it&#8217;s because driving is\u00a0<em>just plain fun<\/em>. \u00a0Not always, of course; navigating 494 when it turns into an Andean goat path after a major blizzard is no fun (and would be less so in a self-driving car).<\/p>\n<p>Partly because I know programmers, and especially project management &#8211; and I drive better than they program. \u00a0All due respect.<\/p>\n<p>So just&#8230;no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber inks deal with Volvo for self-driving cars. Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved. Google, widely regarded as the leader in the field, has been testing its fleet for several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60015,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014\/revisions\/60015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}