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



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.”
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.
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