Talk about bad timing: Google just got a bus detection patent for self-driving cars
 

Talk about bad timing: Google just got a bus detection patent for self-driving cars
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What's the old saying: "Sometimes you hit the bus. And sometimes the bus hits you"? I k**w it's something like that.

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Either way, it shouldn't happen to Google's self-driving cars anymore because the tech giant was just awarded a patent for “Bus Detection for an Auto**mous Vehicle.”

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An image from Google's bus detection patent.

Although Google applied for the patent in 2014, it was just awarded this week, which is comically bad timing. That's because a self-driving Google car sideswiped — albeit barely — a Mountain View city bus on Feb. 14. Read more...

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