{"id":353416,"date":"2017-06-30T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/06\/29\/waymo-s-self-driving-van-death-valley\/21|23008339"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:43:00","slug":"waymos-self-driving-van-is-headed-to-death-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/waymos-self-driving-van-is-headed-to-death-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo\u2019s self-driving van is headed to Death Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company tweeted a picture of one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/12\/19\/google-waymo-chrysler-self-driving-minivan\/\">Chrysler Pacificas<\/a> driving in some hotter temperatures as it heads down to Death Valley, where temperatures have soared as high as 134 degrees. In March, Waymo tested how its cars handle <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/27\/waymos-self-driving-van-heads-to-tahoe-for-some-time-in-the-snow\/\">snowy<\/a> conditions in South Lake Tahoe. And the company is exposing its autonomous vehicles to desert climates in Arizona as well as rainy weather in Washington.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.4833333333333\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taking a desert road trip to thermal test our sensors \u2013 can confirm, it&#8217;s really hot. Next stops: Vegas &amp; Death Valley <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1eWc8FRU5U\">pic.twitter.com\/1eWc8FRU5U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Waymo (@Waymo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Waymo\/status\/880067940124471296\">June 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last December Waymo&#8217;s CEO John Krafcik <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/waymo\/a-first-look-at-our-waymo-fully-self-driving-chrysler-pacifica-hybrid-minivans-5677e5e67750\">said<\/a> that the Chrysler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/04\/25\/waymo-self-driving-minivans-public-phoenix\/\">minivans<\/a> had already undergone 200 hours of extreme weather testing. Death Valley is really extreme though and temperatures are set to approach 120 degrees there this weekend. Should be a pretty good test of its abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company tweeted a picture of one of its Chrysler Pacificas driving in some hotter temperatures as it heads down to Death Valley, where temperatures have soared as high as 134 degrees. In March, Waymo tested how its cars handle snowy conditions in South Lake Tahoe. And the company is exposing its autonomous vehicles to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":353417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-353416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}