{"id":553,"date":"2024-02-20T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/?p=553"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:34:05","slug":"prof-zhao-is-featured-in-a-documentary-on-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/2024\/02\/prof-zhao-is-featured-in-a-documentary-on-self-driving-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Zhao is featured in a Documentary on self-driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prof. Zhao is featured in a Documentary about driverless cars in Phoenix, AZ. It is produced by reporter Namo Abdulla from NEXT, a global program focused on innovation. The program airs on Rudaw, an Associated Press partner channel, in several languages, including English, Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Namo, &#8220;I really enjoyed producing this documentary program about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/waymo\/\">Waymo<\/a>&#8216;s self-driving cabs. I loved taking a ride in a Waymo cab with Gabriel, a 70-year-old cab driver of Italian origin and see his priceless reaction. He says he will be &#8220;very sad&#8221; if he were to lose his Uber job. Our ride took an unexpected turn, making us wonder whether Waymo, a subsidiary of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/google\/\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s parent company Alphabet, is watching its riders. I also had the pleasure of talking to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAA9cwJUBxgHRbLL0Zvd03X5DCQDuUfzTVi0\">Junfeng Zhao<\/a>, a former General Motors (GM) engineer and now director of Battery ELectric &amp; Intelligent Vehicle (BELIV) Lab at Arizona State University, for his insider insights. Will robotaxis render human drivers obsolete, or is there a balance between innovation and job opportunities? Enjoy watching and let me know what you think.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What People Get Wrong About Self-Driving Cars\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8J4tIwxEe00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">Prof. Zhao is featured in a Documentary about driverless cars in Phoenix, AZ. It is produced by reporter Namo Abdulla from NEXT, a global program focused on innovation. The program airs on Rudaw, an Associated Press partner channel, in several languages, including English, Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish. From Namo, &#8220;I really enjoyed producing this documentary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jzhao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}