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Google Maps' Live Transit Update

Car In The Shop? Google Maps Tells You How Late The Bus Is: Video

The only thing more annoying than putting your car in the shop is waiting to catch the bus the next day. It's such a common frustration, it made up Everywoman Sandra Bullock's entire backstory in Speed. The worst part is that while some transit systems offer updates to commuters, indicating when...

June 9, 2011 by 
 
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Cloud-Controlled Energy Saving From Google And Ford

It's 7am, and your alarm is blaring to raise you bleary-eyed from your slumber. You grab breakfast, chuck some clothes on and get ready to head to work. As you step into your... May 12, 2011 by 


 
Pulled over by the police

Senators Push Apple, Google To Nix DUI Apps -- But Does It Matter?

In March, we told you that four U.S. Senators had pushed Apple, Google, and Research In Motion (creators of the Blackberry) to remove apps that revealed the location of DUI... May 12, 2011 by 


 
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Google Bets On Nevada To Become Home For Autonomous Cars

Google has been hitting the headlines pretty hard the past couple of days. Its Android operating system is still hammering the smartphone market, its new music service is... May 11, 2011 by 


 
Google and DOE map of alternative fuel locations

Need To Charge Your Electric Car? There's A Google Map For That

Despite the best efforts of some in the auto industry to keep electric cars off the roads, they're back. Given the current state of technology, the EV's revenge will likely... April 25, 2011 by 


 
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Bing Brings Streetside To Britain: Is Google Losing Ground?

We've talked a lot about the chilly reception Google Street View has gotten overseas. And yesterday, tech reporters were all a-flutter with reports that Google is losing... April 13, 2011 by 


 
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Switzerland Serves Google Street View Its Biggest Smackdown To Date

Here in America, we think Google Street View is great -- all unicorns and double-rainbows -- but elsewhere in the world, folks have been significantly less enthralled... April 5, 2011 by 


 
Parking In Motion app

Parking In Motion Tries Its Hand At Building A Useful Parking App

If we were app developers, the next-to-last frontier we'd want to conquer -- right after organ donation -- would be parking. By their very nature, cars are constantly in... April 4, 2011 by 


 
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In-App-ropriate? DUI Checkpoint Apps Get The Red Light

With more than 10,000 Americans dying every year in DUI-related car accidents, you might think it poor taste that you can download DUI checkpoint warning applications for... March 24, 2011 by 


 
Google Street View car

Mon Dieu! France Fines Google $142,000 For Street View Privacy Violations

There's no denying that Google Maps is the king of online mapping services. It may have been slightly late to the party, but thanks to social features like sharable maps and... March 22, 2011 by 


 
Image of Copenhagen from Google Street View

Planning A Summer Vacation? Google Updates Street View To Help

During the recent recession, a new type of vacation was born: the relaxing but slightly saddening "staycation". Thankfully, many of the world's economies have begun to... March 15, 2011 by 


 
Google autonomous Toyota Prius test vehicle

Google Shows Us Why We All Need Robot Cars

We're pretty familiar with autonomous cars around here, and we've even been treated to a ride in one of Stanford's robots at their automotive innovation lab, which they... March 7, 2011 by 


 
Stuck in traffic, by Flickr user SMercury98

Driverless 'Road Trains' One Step Closer To Reality

Reading the paper. Holding a video conference call. Snapping photographs. Eating a McDonalds. All things that are probably best avoided whilst driving on the freeway... January 24, 2011 by 


 
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Google Updates Android Car Home Application

Google’s mobile OS, Android, has been lacking in the automotive applications department. Now Google is trying to claw away its share of the automotive mobile... October 15, 2010 by 


 
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Google’s Driverless Car: How Could It Work?

With Google’s recent announcement of logging 140,000 miles in a driverless car cruising southern California, many are wondering just how an autonomous vehicle actually... October 13, 2010 by 


 
NYT tests Google's autonomous Toyota Prius

Video: Scoble Catches Google Driverless Car In Action

If you haven't heard about Google's secret driverless car program by now, you must have taken quite a nap. The Internet giant has been out on the roads with cars that can... October 11, 2010 by 


 
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