{"id":39771,"date":"2015-02-21T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-could-driverless-cars-own\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:19:01","slug":"emergentfutures-could-driverless-cars-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-could-driverless-cars-own\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39771 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-could-driverless-cars-own\/attachment\/39772\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nk3j3i8pjV1qz5ttno1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/emergentfutures.tumblr.com\/post\/111684717354\/could-driverless-cars-own-themselves-forget\">emergentfutures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Could driverless cars own themselves?<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Forget buying an electric-powered Tesla, sharing a Zipcar or hiring an Uber &#8211; the most disruptive force in getting from A to B on four wheels could be cars that own themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Emancipated automobiles sounds like a crazy concept. But the man advocating the idea goes further: he thinks they\u2019ll have babies.<\/p>\n<p>OK, let\u2019s briefly shift into reverse and introduce Mike Hearn.<\/p>\n<p>The Zurich-based software developer is both an ex-Google engineer and one of the leading Bitcoin software developers. The virtual currency plays a key role in his scheme, but we\u2019ll get to that in a bit.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the key thing to know is that he\u2019s not actively working on his transport-of-the-future concept, but instead offers it up as a \u201cthought experiment\u201d to inspire.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-30998361\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>emergentfutures: Could driverless cars own themselves? Forget buying an electric-powered Tesla, sharing a Zipcar or hiring an Uber &#8211; the most disruptive force in getting from A to B on four wheels could be cars that own themselves. Emancipated automobiles sounds like a crazy concept. But the man advocating the idea goes further: he thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-alt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39773,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771\/revisions\/39773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}