{"id":1148,"date":"2018-05-04T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T00:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2018-05-04T00:42:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T00:42:58","slug":"new-autonomous-vehicles-coming-to-windsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"New autonomous vehicles coming to Windsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thumbnail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1150\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thumbnail-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thumbnail-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thumbnail-391x300.jpg 391w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thumbnail.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 With the announcement this week that Windsor has been selected as a future\u00a0test-market for driverless cars in Canada\u00a0plans are already underway to have the vehicles programmed to behave just like drivers in the Windsor area.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the autonomous cars to blend in with Windsor traffic in a seamless manner so we\u2019re working on programming the cars to interact with traffic just like an average driver in Windsor\u201d said lead programmer David Lightman \u201cWe\u2019ve got some great data so our driverless vehicles will forget to slowdown when the E.C. Row Expressway is snow or ice covered.\u00a0\u00a0 They will also merge unexpectedly from left-turn-only lanes into right hand lanes without signaling.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t think people will be able to tell the difference between our cars and cars with actual motorists from Windsor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lightman said one common Windsor-driver feature would not be included in the autonomous cars \u201cWe thought about having our cars regularly run yellow traffic lights because that seems to be something Windsor drivers seem to really enjoy doing but we\u2019re going to err on the side of safety on that one and actually have our cars slowdown and come to a stop when a light turns yellow\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 With the announcement this week that Windsor has been selected as a future\u00a0test-market for driverless cars in Canada\u00a0plans are already underway to have the vehicles programmed to behave just like drivers in the Windsor area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}