Privacy

Google Robotic Car Hits a Moving Bus – Are We Really Ready for This?

March 11, 2016  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);">When I recently wrote about concerns being voiced, mine included, about self-driven (robotic or driverless) cars I did not imagine I would get to say, “I told you so” quite so quickly.

Bus Video & Photos Show Google Self-Driving Car At Fault, Consumer Group Demands Google’s Video/Data

March 9, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Although Google is not required to release videos of their crashes, the bus company released video showing how the Google Lexus caused the sidewipe of the bus on <a href="http://www.autoconnectedcar.com/2016/02/why-google-self-driving-lexus-valentine-is-big-hit-with-bus-and-at-fault/">Valentine’s Day </a>this year. Consumers would be better served if Google also released their video says Consumer Watchdog.</p>

Video Shows Google Self-Driving Car Hitting Bus In Silicon Valley

March 9, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p>A new video shows a Google self-driving vehicle hitting a transit bus earlier this year in Mountain View, Calif.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WpJwvCSP_4">The video, obtained </a>by the Associated Press, includes traffic footage as well as video from inside the bus. After the collision, the video shows passengers exiting the bus.</p>

Consumer Groups: FCC Should Not Hold Back On Internet Privacy

March 7, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>Consumer and civil liberty groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to not hold back when developing its new Internet privacy rules.</p>

Groups Worried About Autonomous Vehicle Accident in California

March 4, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Earlier last month, a self-driving Google car sideswiped a bus in California. The California Department of Motor Vehicles released the accident report and it appears that the autonomous vehicle was at fault.</p> <p><span class="img_inline" style="max-width:715px;"><img alt="Google Car (Image Credit: Google Self-Driving Car Project)" height="476" src="http://electronics360.globalspec.com/images/assets/373/6373/google_car.jpg" width="715" /><span class="caption">Google Car (Image Credit: Google Self-Driving Car Project)</span></span></p>

Privacy Groups Line Up Behind Apple Against FBI

March 4, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p>There has been so much back-and-forth in the Apple-FBI dispute that it has at times resembled one of this year's jousting contests posing as presidential debates.</p>

Consumer Reports Demands Public Oversight On Self-Driving Cars After Google Crash

March 3, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Consumer Reports and a former U.S. road-safety czar have joined a coalition demanding public oversight of self-driving cars after Google’s recent at-fault crash. On Valentine’s Day in Mountain View, a Google robot Lexus SUV sideswiped a bus. For the first time, a Google driverless car had responsibility for a crash, the company admitted.</p>

Why Google’s Self-Driving Car Crash Doesn’t Change Anything

March 1, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Google is blaming a “tricky set of circumstances” for what’s believed to be <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-selfdrivingcar-idUSKCN0W22DG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the first accident caused by one of its self-driving cars</a>.</p>

Is Google At Fault For Its Self-Driving Car Crash?

March 1, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p><b>The technology company's self-driving car program was involved in its first real collision last month, after one of the autonomous vehicles began to change lanes and collided with a municipal bus.</b></p> <div class="eza-body clearfix p402_premium" id="story-body"> <p>Google said it would take “some responsibility” for a minor collision in February involving one of its driverless cars and a municipal bus. </p>

Google Self-Driving Car Hits Public Bus Near Mountain View Headquarters

March 1, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="bodytext"><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_print">MOUNTAIN VIEW -- A Google self-driving car has for the first time caused a crash, pulling into traffic and sideswiping a public bus.</span></span></p>

Passenger Bus Teaches Google Robot Car A Lesson

March 1, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p><strong>After a collision, firm refines software on its autonomous vehicles to better 'understand' public transportation.</strong></p> <p>When it comes to hair-raising traffic duels, most California motorists know better than to play chicken with a hulking passenger bus.</p> <p><br /> This, however, is not a concept widely understood by Google's fleet of fearless autonomous cars.</p>

Google Takes Some Blame In Self-Driving Car Bang-Up

February 29, 2016  ·  Mark Reback

<p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">Google on Monday said that its self-driving car bore some of the blame in a recent fender-bender after making the kind of assumption a human might have made.</font></p> <p><font style="font-size:1.2em;">A Lexus car converted into an autonomous vehicle by the Internet company had a low-speed collision with a transit bus on February 14 in what marked the first time that Google laid some of the responsibility for a crash on the software brains.</font></p>