{"id":258371,"date":"2018-05-03T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=258371"},"modified":"2018-05-03T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T06:56:02","slug":"major-carmakers-launch-blockchain-research-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/258371-major-carmakers-launch-blockchain-research-group.html","title":{"rendered":"Major carmakers launch blockchain research group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major automobile manufacturers &#8211; including Ford, BMW, and Renault &#8211; have backed a project called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlt.mobi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative includes major players across the blockchain and automobile industries, including Hyperledger, IBM, and IOTA.<\/p>\n<p>MOBI aims to use blockchain technology to &#8220;make mobility safer, greener, and more affordable&#8221;, beginning with vehicle identity and history tracking.<\/p>\n<p>Other possible uses for the technology include autonomous machine payments, congestion fees, and ride-sharing.<\/p>\n<p>MOBI board members include Hyperledger executive director Brian Behlendorf and Ethereum cofounder Joseph Lubin.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/258131-google-goes-after-self-driving-car-engineer.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google goes after self-driving car engineer<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major manufacturers have backed a project called the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":242962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[1964,48887,42124,1501,50453,48623,50455,37100],"class_list":["post-258371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-bmw","tag-consensys","tag-ethereum","tag-ford","tag-gm","tag-hyperledger","tag-mobility-open-blockchain-initiative-mobi","tag-renault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258469,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258371\/revisions\/258469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}