{"id":14397,"date":"2024-08-01T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14397"},"modified":"2024-08-02T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T08:44:19","slug":"the-continuing-menace-of-driverless-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14397","title":{"rendered":"The continuing menace of driverless vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

All over the country, every day driverless vehicles are colliding with other vehicles and\/or structures according to the local press.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Here’s a typical example from today’s Bristol Live\/Post<\/a> to accompany the screenshot below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Headline\r\n\r\n

Nowhere in the entire report is there any mention of a driver, i.e. someone who might have been able to avoid the vehicle in question deciding to crash into the railway bridge of its own volition.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Furthermore, the byline shows that someone is unfamiliar with basic English language. It reads:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Services are at a stand.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

The byline is in fact quoted from Inrix<\/a>, a US-based traffic data company which now operates in the Untied Kingdom, but seems to be unfamiliar with the word standstill<\/em>. If any illiterate Inrix employees happen to be passing, it is defined<\/a> as a condition in which all movement or activity has stopped<\/em>.\r\n\r\n<\/p>

The phrase at a stand<\/em> does exist, but its meaning<\/a> – in a state of confusion or uncertainty; undecided what to do next<\/em> – is subtly different from standstill<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All over the country, every day driverless vehicles are colliding with other vehicles and\/or structures according to the local press. Here’s a typical example from today’s Bristol Live\/Post to accompany the screenshot below. Nowhere in the entire report is there any mention of a driver, i.e. someone who might have been able to avoid the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32],"tags":[40,36,16,33],"class_list":["post-14397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14397"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14421,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions\/14421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}