Google Street View Driverless Cars Kill Animals!

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Normally a donkey rolling around in the dirt isn't a tech news story...until Google Street View gets involved. You have to admit, the picture below does look kinda look like the car hit the donkey. ;)

"Our Street View teams take the safety of people and donkeys very seriously," the spokesperson said. "A review of our imagery confirms that we did not cause any harm to the donkey."
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Clearly they are waiting for the jackass to get the hell outa the way.
 
the street view cars are driverless?

I always thought they send their interns in wild journeys around the road to for them.
 
Poor animal :(

TheBuzzer said:
the street view cars are driverless?

I always thought they send their interns in wild journeys around the road to for them.
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Drivers are not their employees, at least around here. Pretty sure they save quite a bit of money because of that.
 
So is this a from a driverless car, or from a street view car? They are not the same.
 
Drive forward (north) from this location: http:///maps/WTT94

The sequence of events seems fairly clear.
I think the GM vehicle stopped and waited for the donkey to finish his dust bath and get out of the road. The vehicle then proceeds, leaving an apparently uninjured, untraumatized donkey standing by the side of the road.
 
Since when does that qualify as a street?

I would call it a path, possibly a trail...
 
Geonerd said:
Drive forward (north) from this location: http:///maps/WTT94

The sequence of events seems fairly clear.
I think the GM vehicle stopped and waited for the donkey to finish his dust bath and get out of the road. The vehicle then proceeds, leaving an apparently uninjured, untraumatized donkey standing by the side of the road.
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broken link?
 
That's simply a donkey photobomb.

What. You think animals aren't smart enough to mess with Google like humans are?
 
The donkey is on its feet in one direction and on the ground after they pass it.

Yeah, its just a coincidence the donkey had a major coronary at the exact moment the vehicle passed it.
 
vBulletin eats goo.gl - goo.gl

Surely everyone drives on the right hand side of the road in every country... ;)
Google van approaches 4WD coming from direction of donkey. Obviously vehicles drive to the left in that country. Who'd have thunk?
Google van passes 4WD coming from direction of donkey - can just see donkey in distance.
3 steps on
4WD disappearing into dust, dust clearing around donkey
3 steps on
can only see 4WD's dust, donkey has been rolling around
donkey is on its side, to the south of a trail that can be seen on the left. Dust of 4WD is starting to round bend behind van.
BEEEP
donkey has walked to trail, can see its hoof prints leading from where it was laying in previous shot. Dust of 4WD is disappearing behind trees around bend.
3 steps on
donkey starts to walk along trail
3 steps on
donkey disappears behind bushes
 
oh man....a donkey?!?!

Why couldn't be a deer? Deer atleast would taste better.

Seriously though...this says alot for the safety record of where we're at with all this stuff. Surely we can do better?
 
klightspeed said:
vBulletin eats goo.gl - goo.gl

Surely everyone drives on the right hand side of the road in every country... ;)
Google van approaches 4WD coming from direction of donkey. Obviously vehicles drive to the left in that country. Who'd have thunk?
Google van passes 4WD coming from direction of donkey - can just see donkey in distance.
3 steps on
4WD disappearing into dust, dust clearing around donkey
3 steps on
can only see 4WD's dust, donkey has been rolling around
donkey is on its side, to the south of a trail that can be seen on the left. Dust of 4WD is starting to round bend behind van.
BEEEP
donkey has walked to trail, can see its hoof prints leading from where it was laying in previous shot. Dust of 4WD is disappearing behind trees around bend.
3 steps on
donkey starts to walk along trail
3 steps on
donkey disappears behind bushes
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yea, some real investigative reporting going on here...
 
I've looked at all the images in all directions, and it's obvious that the other truck that came by hit the donkey while he was crossing the other side of the road - got knocked down, and then when the Google car came up, the donkey got up and walked off the road.
 
Geonerd said:
O f-ing bother. [H] is doing something to the links. This site is NOT what it once was.... :(


Try
goo dot gl slash maps slash T85E4
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A lot of link shorteners have been very abused to provide ambush content and get around spam filters so most of the common ones are banned.
 
Monkey34 said:
the Google car came up, the donkey got up and walked off the road.
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It's pretty obvious if you look at the dust clouds (hint the dust is behind the car while it's moving). The pictures show that the donkey wonders off and into the brush if you are moving in the same direction as the car.

Total non-story.
 
Actually, im a professional driver working as a shuttle driver for a large software maker that's not Google. I have seen this sort of thing and have professional training to deal with it.

Basically what happens is donkeys will often take fall's behind your vehicle in front of a camera, and then try to sue you for injury. I don't really blame the donkey's, but lawyers. Its just a sad case of our justice system being broken, not a donkey getting hit by a car.
 
jpm100 said:
The donkey is on its feet in one direction and on the ground after they pass it.

Yeah, its just a coincidence the donkey had a major coronary at the exact moment the vehicle passed it.
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They drive on the left side of the road there. The donkey is on the ground rolling around in the dirt as the vehicle approaches and on it's feet having walked several yards past where it rolled around.
 
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