{"id":298,"date":"2019-06-20T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T23:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=298"},"modified":"2019-06-20T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:19:59","slug":"electric-cars-and-autonomous-cars","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/chapter\/electric-cars-and-autonomous-cars\/","title":{"raw":"Electric cars and autonomous cars","rendered":"Electric cars and autonomous cars"},"content":{"raw":"<h1>Electric vehicles<\/h1>\r\nEVs may or may not be the wave of the future, but the challenge is the infrastructure to support electric chargers.\u00a0 BC Hydro has many resources on this topic.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bchydro.com\/powersmart\/electric-vehicles.html\">https:\/\/www.bchydro.com\/powersmart\/electric-vehicles.html<\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h1>Autonomous Vehicles<\/h1>\r\nThese are vehicles that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input.\u00a0 \u00a0The design purpose is to\r\n\r\na) increase safety\r\n\r\nb) reduce traffic congestion\r\n\r\nc) eliminate the need for insurance\r\n\r\nd) reduce infrastructure cost\r\n\r\ne) increase mobility\r\n\r\nf) reduce fuel consumption\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFrom wikipedia autonomous car\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHistory.\u00a0 \u00a0Experiments started in 1920, with a semi-autonomous vehicle being produced in 1977 from Japan's Tsubkuba Mechanical.\u00a0 1980 at Carnegie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<h1>Electric vehicles<\/h1>\n<p>EVs may or may not be the wave of the future, but the challenge is the infrastructure to support electric chargers.\u00a0 BC Hydro has many resources on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bchydro.com\/powersmart\/electric-vehicles.html\">https:\/\/www.bchydro.com\/powersmart\/electric-vehicles.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Autonomous Vehicles<\/h1>\n<p>These are vehicles that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input.\u00a0 \u00a0The design purpose is to<\/p>\n<p>a) increase safety<\/p>\n<p>b) reduce traffic congestion<\/p>\n<p>c) eliminate the need for insurance<\/p>\n<p>d) reduce infrastructure cost<\/p>\n<p>e) increase mobility<\/p>\n<p>f) reduce fuel consumption<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From wikipedia autonomous car<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>History.\u00a0 \u00a0Experiments started in 1920, with a semi-autonomous vehicle being produced in 1977 from Japan&#8217;s Tsubkuba Mechanical.\u00a0 1980 at Carnegie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-298","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":296,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/298\/revisions\/306"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/296"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/298\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/engineeringinsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}