{"id":34512,"date":"2021-04-27T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34512"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:57:05","slug":"wheels-begin-to-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34512","title":{"rendered":"WHEELS BEGIN TO ROLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two key bipartisan senators are ramping up efforts to create standards for testing and deploying autonomous vehicles, with the renewed effort coming after years of roadblocks in the Senate to create a nationwide framework around self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>Sens.\u00a0Gary Peters\u00a0(D-Mich.) and\u00a0John Thune\u00a0(R-S.D.) on Tuesday strongly argued for the need to advance legislation around autonomous vehicles in order to decrease traffic fatalities and increase the mobility of the elderly and those with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most important opportunities we can seize is autonomous vehicle technologies,\u201d Peters, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee\u2019s subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports, said during a hearing on the future of automotive mobility Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two key bipartisan senators are ramping&#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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512","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=34512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34513,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512\/revisions\/34513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}