{"id":5590,"date":"2014-05-22T23:38:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T06:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2014-05-29T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T17:22:00","slug":"know-more-steering-with-your-knee-while-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/22\/know-more-steering-with-your-knee-while-texting\/","title":{"rendered":"No more steering with your knee while texting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/05\/22\/california-will-start-granting-licenses-for-driverless-cars-in-september\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from TechCrunch<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"alpha tweet-title\" style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #3e433e;\">California Will Start Granting Licenses For Driverless Cars In September<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #aab6aa;\">by\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic; color: #089e00;\" title=\"Posts by Greg Kumparak\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/author\/greg-kumparak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Greg Kumparak<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #aab6aa;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"twitter-handle\" style=\"font-style: italic; color: #aab6aa;\">(<a style=\"color: #089e00;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">@grg<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #3e433e;\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/driverless.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3e433e;\"><em>You<\/em>\u00a0need a license to drive a car. But does a robot?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3e433e;\">For now, yes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3e433e;\">Come September, the California Department of Motor Vehicles\u00a0will begin granting licenses to select driverless cars and their human co-pilots, which will make it a bit less legally iffy as to whether or not they\u2019re actually allowed to be on a public road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3e433e;\">The good news: The license will only cost $150 a pop, and that covers 10 vehicles and up to 20 test drivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3e433e;\">The bad (but probably actually good) news: You probably can\u2019t get one, so don\u2019t go trying to make your own Googlecar just yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3e433e;\">The terms of the license are (as you might hope, in these early days) pretty strict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3e433e;\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/05\/22\/california-will-start-granting-licenses-for-driverless-cars-in-september\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TechCrunch.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TechCrunch California Will Start Granting Licenses For Driverless Cars In September by\u00a0Greg Kumparak\u00a0(@grg) You\u00a0need a license to drive a car. But does a robot? For now, yes. Come September, the California Department of Motor Vehicles\u00a0will begin granting licenses to select driverless cars and their human co-pilots, which will make it a bit less legally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}