{"id":29646,"date":"2018-05-08T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29646"},"modified":"2018-05-08T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T16:35:33","slug":"driverless-car-service-umm-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29646","title":{"rendered":"Driverless car service? Umm, no thanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>As a soon-to-be resident of a North Texas community, I believe I shall declare here and now that I have zero intention of ever partaking of a new service that a neighboring community will allow.<\/p>\n<p>Frisco is going to allow a driverless service. Yep. Get into a motor vehicle and let it take you where you want to go.<\/p>\n<p><em>No-o-o-o<\/em> thank you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/05\/07\/driverless-car-service-set-begin-north-texas-summer\/\">The Texas Tribune reports<\/a>: <em>The service, reported Monday by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/frisco\/2018\/05\/07\/nations-first-self-driving-car-service-public-coming-frisco-july\">The Dallas Morning News<\/a>,\u00a0will first be accessible in July for roughly 10,000 employees working in a bevy of corporate offices located less than a mile away from The Star, a retail and dining area that also serves as headquarters for the Dallas Cowboys. The service will also be free for the first six months.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The service reportedly will expand beyond this limited accessibility &#8230; eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Until the day comes when there can be an ironclad guarantee that this technology is absolutely, unequivocally fool-proof, I always will sit in a motor vehicle with a fellow <em>fallible<\/em> human being sitting behind the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of an even more -fallible &#8220;Drone Car&#8221; mingling on our streets and highways with the rest of us scares the bejabbers out of me.<\/p>\n<p>There. I&#8217;m out.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a soon-to-be resident of a North Texas community, I believe I shall declare here and now that I have zero intention of ever partaking of a new service that a neighboring community will allow. Frisco is going to allow a driverless service. Yep. Get into a motor vehicle and let it take you where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driverless car service? Umm, no thanks!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7744,7493,4728],"class_list":["post-29646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-driverless-cars","tag-north-texas","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29648,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29646\/revisions\/29648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}