{"id":133518,"date":"2025-09-10T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133518\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:40:06","slug":"its-a-hell-of-a-party-trick-first-driverless-road-trip-from-sydney-to-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133518\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a hell of a party trick&#8217;: first driverless road trip from Sydney to Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians love a classic road trip.<\/p>\n<p>But what about doing one without even touching the wheel? The age of self-driving cars has arrived here in Oz.<\/p>\n<p>On ABC Radio Melbourne Afternoons, Mary Gearin spoke to motoring writer James Ward, fresh from a 14-hour Sydney to Melbourne driverless marathon, the very first long-distance hands-free trip along the Hume Highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a driverless car sceptic, but this is incredibly impressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians love a classic road trip. But what about doing one without even touching the wheel? The age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[83195,30001,64,63,99,92274,92275,92273,83194,3755],"class_list":["post-133518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-774-afternoons","tag-abc-radio-melbourne","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-driverless-cars","tag-driverless-sydney-to-melbourne","tag-james-ward","tag-mary-gearin","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}