{"id":6258,"date":"2023-08-12T10:46:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2023-08-12T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T14:48:58","slug":"kaku-on-driverless-robotaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/kaku-on-driverless-robotaxis\/","title":{"rendered":"KAKU ON DRIVERLESS ROBOTAXIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2023\/08\/11\/famed-futurist-michio-kaku-cities-will-start-to-follow-san-franciscos-lead-with-self-driving-taxis.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/michio-kaku-cnbc-robotaxi.jpg\" alt=\"Click to Watch Video\" title=\"Click to Watch Video\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full noborder\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"padding-left: 6px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/tag\/cnbc\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cnbc700px.png\" alt=\"Click for more CNBC\" title=\"Click for more CNBC\" width=\"170\" class=\"alignleft size-full noborder\" \/><\/a>Regulators in <strong>San Francisco<\/strong> have approved two operators for the first wave of <strong>RoboTaxi<\/strong> service. It will surely displace some workers but may also take a lot of bad drivers off the road, for example, serving as designated driver for drunken passengers who might otherwise get behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mkaku.org\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dr. Michio Kaku<\/strong><\/a>, theoretical physicist and bestselling author of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/publications\/quantum-supremacy\/\">QUANTUM SUPREMACY: How The Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything<\/a><\/strong>, appeared on <strong>CNBC<\/strong> to discuss this action and why he sees it as a sign of things to come in cities across the nation. <a target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2023\/08\/11\/famed-futurist-michio-kaku-cities-will-start-to-follow-san-franciscos-lead-with-self-driving-taxis.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WATCH NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators in San Francisco have approved two operators for the first wave of RoboTaxi service. It will surely displace some workers but may also take a lot of bad drivers off the road, for example, serving as designated driver for drunken passengers who might otherwise get behind the wheel. Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,57,59],"tags":[7,1076,1072,488,1075,1071,1078,1074,1073,534,497,529,958,303,1077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}