{"id":3515,"date":"2012-09-07T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=12052"},"modified":"2012-09-07T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:33:04","slug":"the-self-driving-car-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-self-driving-car-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The Self-Driving Car Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Alexsis Madrigal offers an inside look at what Google is doing with Maps and all those Streetview photos they&#8217;ve amassed. It&#8217;s jaw-dropping in its scope and audacity &#8212; and in its implications for the future:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;as my friend and\u00a0sci-fi novelist\u00a0Robin Sloan put it to me, &#8220;I maintain that this is Google&#8217;s core asset. In 50 years, Google will be the self-driving car company (powered by this deep map of the world) and, oh, P.S. they still have a search engine somewhere.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/09\/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-everything\/261913\/\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=761605de-3a75-4c3f-80fb-18e41058b469\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bd2C7eWcqisZQBFV99lgoWurx1U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bd2C7eWcqisZQBFV99lgoWurx1U\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bd2C7eWcqisZQBFV99lgoWurx1U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Bd2C7eWcqisZQBFV99lgoWurx1U\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/tslIZFonmco\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexsis Madrigal offers an inside look at what Google is doing with Maps and all those Streetview photos they&#8217;ve amassed. It&#8217;s jaw-dropping in its scope and audacity &#8212; and in its implications for the future: &#8220;&#8230;as my friend and\u00a0sci-fi novelist\u00a0Robin Sloan put it to me, &#8220;I maintain that this is Google&#8217;s core asset. In 50 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,344,887,888,886,889,890,891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-google","category-google-map","category-google-streetview","category-location","category-maps","category-search-engines","category-searching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}