{"375021":{"#nid":"375021","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Self-driving Vehicles May Arrive Sooner Than Expected","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA car that drives itself seems like the stuff of fanciful daydreams or science fiction movies, but it is only a few years away.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech giant Google continues to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/just-press-go-designing-self-driving.html\u0022\u003Etest its self-driving car\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;around Silicon Valley and this spring showed models without a steering wheel or pedals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-09-07\/gm-to-introduce-hands-free-driving-in-cadillac-model.html\u0022\u003ECadillac announced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in September it will introduce a nearly self-driving car in 2017, featuring a \u201csuper cruise\u201d feature that allows hands- and feet-free driving on both freeways and in stop-and-go traffic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElon Musk of electric-car maker Tesla\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/fdc\/welcome_mjx.shtml\u0022\u003Esaid in a February interview\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with Bloomberg his company would be \u201cthe first company to market with significant autonomous driving function in the vehicles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo when will we see widespread use of self-driving cars?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think the answer is sooner than you previously thought,\u201d said Nick Bell, chief information officer of Global Product Development at General Motors. Bell spoke at a panel on autonomous vehicles at the People \u0026amp; Technology Forum 2014 at Georgia Tech earlier this month.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 16:59:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:52","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"automation in the workplace","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.abc2news.com\/business\/consumer\/selfdriving-vehicles-may-arrive-sooner-than-expected_73407830","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}