Privacy

Look, Ma, No Hands!

June 5, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="213" data-total-count="213" id="story-continues-1" itemprop="articleBody">On Wednesday morning, during Google’s annual meeting, a shareholder named John M. Simpson stood up to question the company’s top executives about its <a href="http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/">self-driving car program</a>. They were not friendly questions.</p>

Google Will Make Monthly Reports On Self-Driving Cars

June 5, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Google will release monthly reports on the performance of its self-driving cars, and it disclosed summaries of the 12 accidents that involved the vehicles.</p> <p>Google described all of the accidents as minor, saying no injuries were reported. The company said Friday, as it has in the past, that the self-driving technology was not to blame for any of the accidents. In one case, however, an employee used the self-driving car to run an errand and rear-ended another car that was stopped in traffic. Google had previously disclosed that accident, which happened in August 2011.</p>

At Shareholders’ Meeting Google’s Execs Cite Privacy When It Suits Them

June 4, 2015  ·  John M. Simpson

<p>I have just returned from my annual pilgrimage to Mountain View, CA, to ask questions at the <a href="https://investor.google.com/proxy.html">annual Google Shareholders’ meeting</a>. This year I focused on privacy and safety issues involving the Internet giant’s robot cars.</p>

Google Founder Defends Accident Records of Self-Driving Cars

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<h3 id="dek">Google co-founder cites privacy issues for shielding accident reports of self-driving cars</h3> <p>SAN FRANCISCO -- Google co-founder <a class="r_lapi" href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/people/sergey-brin.htm">Sergey Brin</a> sees little reason to release the accident reports involving the Internet company's self-driving cars because he believes there's nothing new in documents that have been withheld so far to protect the privacy of other motorists.</p>

Google Reveals 12th Self-Driving Car Accident — This One Happened in Past Week

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>At <strong>Google Inc.’s</strong> annual stockholder conference Wednesday, one shareholder urged the company to release its accident reports from the 11 that were recently reported, while Sergey Brin shared that there was another minor accident in a self-driving car in the past week.</p>

Google Defends Not Releasing Accident Reports For Self-Driving Cars

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Wednesday defended his company's policy of not releasing accident reports for its self-driving cars, saying the Internet giant is trying to protect the privacy of the human drivers who caused the collisions.</p> <p>Even if the names were redacted from the records, Brin said, the reports would just confirm a summary posted online three weeks ago.</p> <p>The number of accidents rose to 12 in the past week after a self-driving car was rear-ended, Brin said.</p>

Driverless Cars, Diversity And Dystopia: 3 Things Google Discussed At Its Annual Meeting

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><strong>Google talks about a wide range of topics during its annual meeting with shareholders, including self-driving cars and diversity issues. CEO Larry Page even takes a turn as a film critic.</strong></p> <p style="">It's been a long time since Google was just a search company. The tech giant now has its hand in a little bit of everything, including self-driving cars, tools for people who experience tremors and smart contact lenses.</p>

Larry Page On Future: “Everything’s Getting Better”

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Biodiversity. Workplace diversity. Religion. Wind turbines. Self-driving car crashes. Science fiction. Political lobbying. And yes, even the Internet.</p> <p>Wednesday morning was Google’s annual shareholder meeting, which is also a perennial opportunity for activists and vocal shareholders to pick the brains of some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley: Google CEO Larry Page, co-founder Sergey Brin and Chairman Eric Schmidt, along with Google’s chief legal and public policy officer, David Drummond.</p>

Google Reports A 12th Self-Driving Car Accident

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><b>Company Says Autonomous Car Was Rear-Ended Last Week</b></p>

Google Self-Driving Car Involved Iin Another Crash

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><b>Google co-founder Sergey Brin reveals that one its self-driving cars was rear-ended in the past week, taking the total number of accidents to 12</b></p> <div class="cl"> </div> <div class="firstPar"> <p><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a></strong> has increased the number of accidents its self-driving cars have been involved in, as its co-founder defended the hi-tech programme.</p>

At Google’s Annual Meeting, Sergey Brin Defends The Robots

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><b>The co-founder, seated in the audience rather than on stage with other executives, had a testy exchange with one shareholder activist.</b></p>

Google May Release Robot Car Crash Reports

June 3, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Google founder Sergey Brin said he would be "open" to releasing accident reports about crashes involving its robot cars in response to a Consumer Watchdog challenge for transparency about the crashes today.</p> <p>However, Google executives rejected Consumer Watchdog's call to protect privacy of driverless car users by limiting the use of data gathered by the cars to only operating the vehicles.</p>