{"id":1156,"date":"2019-01-26T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2019-01-26T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:40:21","slug":"riding-the-gravy-train-autonomousvehicles-hs2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Riding the gravy train      #autonomousvehicles #HS2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lazysocialbuttons\" data-float=\"left\" data-buttons=\"google,twitter,facebook\" data-twshareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=1156\" data-twtext=\"\" data-shareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=1156\" data-fbhideflyout=\"false\" data-backgroundtype=\"light\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/autonomys-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/autonomys-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/autonomys-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/autonomys-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/autonomys-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/autonomys.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a meeting in the Capital in 2 hours to discuss an important project so I call up an AV by thinking inside the box (which resides in a corner of my brain)<\/p>\n<p>I get an alert inside my brain box &amp; head for the door. I don&#8217;t carry any hardware as I&#8217;m permanently connected to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The AV glides up &amp; an orifice appears so I hop in &amp; relax in the sumptuous surroundings, I click a switch in \u00a0my brain box &amp; the vehicle becomes transparent &#8211; I want to enjoy the journey today &amp; take a break from screens.<\/p>\n<p>As we travel towards the motorway we pass the old JLR plant, after they moved all production to Slovakia following #brexit the site is now used as a storage facility for expired batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty soon I&#8217;m joining the M6 Hyperway, a 12 lane superhighway augmented for AV&#8217;s. My AV joins the swarm &amp; accelerates to a steady 130mph surrounded by other AV&#8217;s centimetres apart. Statistics prove that travelling in an AV is much safer than air travel.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly we pass the Birmingham Curzon St station &#8211; now used as an Art Gallery after the #HS2 project was abandoned when Government subsidies were withdrawn following the election of the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re approaching the Capital now &amp; I&#8217;m reflecting on what a great city Manchester is &amp; how its developed since the terminal decline of London after #brexit &amp; the &#8216;Great Exit&#8217; of the Finance Industry.<\/p>\n<p>As my AV glides through the suburbs &amp; I prepare to disembark I&#8217;m laughing at the notion that once upon a time some people thought we would still be using trains that ran on rails!<\/p>\n<p>Chris@amberhill.biz<\/p>\n<p>www.amberhill-associates.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar addthis_pub = '';\nvar addthis_language = 'en';var addthis_options = 'email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more';\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=20\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', 'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amberhill.biz%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1156', 'Riding+the+gravy+train++++++%23autonomousvehicles+%23HS2')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/200\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a meeting in the Capital in 2 hours to discuss an important project so I call up an AV by thinking inside the box (which resides in a corner of my brain) I get an alert inside my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=1156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,29],"tags":[134,104,17,43,125,36,126],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurology","category-social-commentary","tag-automotive","tag-cars","tag-globalization","tag-green-issues","tag-innovation","tag-new-product-development","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}