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Re: Google street-view driver ignores man in danger
Did it occur to you that the driver of the Google vehicle probably doesn't see what the camera sees, since he's, you know, driving and paying attention to the road ahead of him? Not to mention the numerous other cars/trucks that passed by this man lying on the grass that didn't stop, why single out the Google driver? |
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Kearnstd
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because google is just so much more guilty then the 100s of other cars, trucks, service vans that also passed by.
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Assuming the guy wasn't faking it for the Google car( possible ). I'm sure the Google car wasn't the only car that passed this guy up. If he was drunk form the night before I'm sure dozens if not HUNDREDS of cars passed this guy up. What police never come down that road either? I smell BS. |
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Dogfather
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Meanwhile if he did stop to help and something happened, both he and Google would be sued for millions. |
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said by TKJunkMail  :said by Jeffrey :I was under the impression that there was no expectation of privacy in public, but perhaps I don't quite understand where this guy was sleeping it off. This wasn't a "privacy issue" story, but about a driver ignoring either a dead body on the street or someone in serious difficulty with a possible injury. More a "what kind of contractors does Google hire" story. No I understand that part of it, but I have no idea how much a Google Earth driver has to do while he's driving. I won't go as far as saying I've swung by dead bodies as I drove, but I don't really pay attention to things off the roadway from my line of driving. I can only assume that the Google Earth guy is similar, but distracted.
Not making excuses for the driver or the pedestrian here, but obviously something needs to change. Those Aussies love a good beer.
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said by Jeffrey :I was under the impression that there was no expectation of privacy in public, but perhaps I don't quite understand where this guy was sleeping it off. This wasn't a "privacy issue" story, but about a driver ignoring either a dead body on the street or someone in serious difficulty with a possible injury. More a "what kind of contractors does Google hire" story.
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Speaking for people who have also passed out on the grass due to a night of partying, I wouldn't be that thrilled if Google captured my own image like this. Although, I think I would reason that I shouldn't be passed out on the sidewalk to begin with, rather than the "privacy" issue.
I was under the impression that there was no expectation of privacy in public, but perhaps I don't quite understand where this guy was sleeping it off.
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|  Like all the stories of sleeping Comcast agents; Verizon agents, etc., here is one on a Google contractor that deserves front page scorn:
»news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10016···1_3-0-20
Bill's friend, the one with whom he was going on a motorbike holiday in Tasmania, suddenly died. Bill, being upset, went out and got drunk.
A cab dropped him off back at his house. But he collapsed before he could get to his front door.
So along came a friendly Google StreetView camera car. The Australian version of the service was to be launched August 4. So the Googler had a lot of filming to do.
He shot the prostrate Bill who was lying on his back, his feet sticking out into the road.
The driver didn't stop to see whether Bill was all right. He didn't even get out of his camera car to move Bill's feet away from the curb. Like a TMZ.com paparazzo, his deadline seemed to be more important than something that could have been a dead body.
Did his shot of the beFostered Bill make the first edition of Google StreetView Australia? Too right, mate.
Who was the anti-Samaritan driving that Google camera car? Are his parents made of metal? What sort of instructions did he have? Why didn't he get out to help? And why didn't anyone at Google Australia notice that there was, well, a body lying in the street? (Google only removed the image after Bill's story came to light)
I know that people make jokes about Google being the quintessential engineering company. And that is something this blog will never stoop to (being an engineering company, that is).
But I hope you, too, would like to know how the company reacted to one of its drivers leaving a man lying in the street while he filmed him. Original story and picture - BEFORE Google deleted it.
»www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne···ome.html
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