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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 Apple and Blackberry cell phones. You'd not be alone, either. Four U.S. senators are asking Apple, Google and Research In Motion, the makers of Blackberry, to remove smartphone apps from their stores that alert drivers to DUI checkpoints. The applications have been accused of giving drivers an excuse to drink and drive, knowing that they're unlikely to be caught driving under the influence. The apps have been described as...
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Mon Dieu! France Fines Google $142,000 For Street View Privacy ViolationsThere'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 the ability to drop in notes at specific locations, it quickly zoomed past competitors like MapQuest. One of Google Maps'...
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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 recover, so now that winter's chill is thawing, cabin fever victims in the northern hemisphere are planning real getaways for...
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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 launched in partnership with Volkswagen. You might also remember Shelley, their autonomous Audi TTS, which autonomously raced to...
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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. However, thanks to developments in technology, you might be able to do all these things and more (we'll leave the "and more" to your...
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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 handle their own business in traffic, racking up 140,000 miles of testing. To prove the concept, Google even took a 1,000 mile...
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When the 2011 Audi A8 hits showrooms next year, it's bringing everyone's favorite SEO slavedriver to the party: Google. Audi says it's integrating various Google services into the new A8's MultiMedia Interface (MMI) with the introduction of the new A8, which we revealed for you two weeks ago live from Miami. Other automakers have brought Google into their cars. BMW USA, for example, lets drivers send Google Maps links to their cars' navigation systems as pre-programmed waypoints. European BMW drivers can actually use the Web search engine from the back seat of the 2009 BMW 7-Series, but...
