{"id":32589,"date":"2021-03-08T17:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32589"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:14:01","slug":"take-it-out-for-a-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32589","title":{"rendered":"TAKE IT OUT FOR A SPIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s self-driving car unit Waymo is claiming that its artificial intelligence could have avoided or mitigated the majority of a set of fatal accidents.<\/p>\n<p>In a white paper published Monday, the company simulated 72 deadly-crashes that occurred between in 2008 and 2017 in Chandler, Ariz., where Waymo currently operates.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo\u2019s artificial driver was able to avoid or mitigate the crashes excluding cases where the car was hit from behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we have an opportunity to improve road safety by replacing the human driver with the Waymo Driver,\u201d Trent Victor, the company\u2019s director of safety research, said in a blog post. \u201cThis study helps validate that belief.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s self-driving car unit Waymo is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32590,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589\/revisions\/32590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}