{"id":79,"date":"2004-08-08T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2004-08-08T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2004-08-08T20:47:11","slug":"hands-free-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Hands free driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently spent an evening and a good part of the following night driving on our overstretched motorway and A road system (30 miles of motorway closed necessitating a 70 mile nose to tail detour), I am ready to consider alternatives.  Whilst searching online for something else, I came across an essay entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/jbs\/itrans\/reynoldsfuturist.htm\">End of Traffic Jams: A Transportation System for the Future<\/a>, which is concerned with dualmode and automated highway systems.  Whilst little more than an overview, this essay points the way towards a possuble solution to combining the freedom of personal transport with the speed, ease of use and safety of a mass transit system.  However, a wander through the various ongoing projects linked at the bottom of the page shows that these types of initiaives are not just pipe dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently spent an evening and a good part of the following night driving on our overstretched motorway and A road system (30 miles of motorway closed necessitating a 70 mile nose to tail detour), I am ready to consider alternatives. Whilst searching online for something else, I came across an essay entitled End of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}