{"id":4630,"date":"2016-02-04T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T02:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2016-02-04T21:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:19:02","slug":"samsung-are-put-tvs-on-the-back-of-road-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/samsung-are-put-tvs-on-the-back-of-road-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung are putting TVs on the back of road trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/02\/03\/samsung-safety-truck-test\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/27131924\/Samsung-safety-truck-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;ve ever driven behind a slow semi-truck on a tight, two-lane road, you&#8217;d get the appeal of Samsung&#8217;s Safety Truck. It&#8217;s equipped with a camera up front, which sends a live feed to four weatherproof video monitors on the back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who regularly drove in outback South Australia I know first hand just how difficult (and scary) it can be overtaking trucks at times.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fantastic initiative by Samsung, who are trialling the project in Argentina. I wouldn&#8217;t hold my breath for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lindsay_Fox\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Fox<\/a> and co to start popping giant TVs on their rigs just yet, but you never know. 5 years down the track, when the tech is cheap enough, this could be the norm.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/02\/03\/samsung-safety-truck-test\/\">Samsung&#8217;s Safety Truck concept starts testing in Argentina<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;ve ever driven behind a slow semi-truck on a tight, two-lane road, you&#8217;d get the appeal of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}