{"id":1432,"date":"2019-03-28T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2019-03-28T11:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:17:19","slug":"before-self-driving-cars-can-get-safer-they-need-to-push-their-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/before-self-driving-cars-can-get-safer-they-need-to-push-their-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Before self-driving cars can get safer, they need to push their limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Self-driving cars are known for driving conservatively. After all, \nautomakers and tech companies design autonomous vehicles to be textbook \nsafe drivers, not aggressive speed demons. But mechanical engineers at \nStanford University have been working on a research vehicle that can \ndrive autonomously right at the edge of the tires\u2019 grip on the surface \nbelow them, pushing the limits of friction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal isn\u2019t to create a self-driving car that can drift around a \nrace track. Instead,  the researchers want to help autonomous cars \nactually drive more safely by allowing them to know their own limits and\n even operate at the edge of those limits. It\u2019s a useful skill for any \ndriver to have if a deer dashes in front of the car\u2014you want to be able \nto swerve if needed, but not so hard that the tires lose all purchase on\n the asphalt and the car skids off the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving cars are known for driving conservatively. After all, automakers and tech companies design autonomous vehicles to be textbook safe drivers, not aggressive speed demons. But mechanical engineers at Stanford University have been working on a research vehicle that can drive autonomously right at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategistsworld.com\/your-perspectives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}