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Google's Street View car hits donkey, keeps driving
- rpledge 14y agoIt looks to me like the donkey started rolling around in the dirt after the car went by.... (Disclaimer: I know nothing about donkeys). Its interesting that you can kind of see what happened by shuffling forward and back on the images.
- jstanley 14y agoGood spot. Also, if you move along and look to the side, you can see the donkey standing by the side of the road as the car goes past. No donkey was harmed here :D.
- vladikoff 14y agoThe donkey is alive! See: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3882828/google-proves-it-avoided-hit-and-run-with-donkey-in-botswana http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3882828/google-proves-it-a...
- mark-r 14y agoA better link is one contained in the article, straight from Google: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/01/never-ass-ume.html http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/01/never-ass-ume.htm...
- pla3rhat3r 14y agoAnother way Google is making an ass of itself. (sorry had to be said)
- cleverjake 14y agoNo it did not.
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoNo
- aw3c2 14y agoI thought this was about their autonomous cars at first. That would have been interesting. This is just another random Street View driver error.
- whimsy 14y agoNah, this turned out to be interpretation error; the Street View driver acted ethically. See other comments on this page.
- duiker101 14y agoWhen I first read the title I thought it was a self-driving car and thought "oh fuck, people will go nuts over this"
- van_bele 14y agoMy thoughts exactly!
- joeco 14y agoFlap closed, donkey fine.
- zyang 14y agoIt's obvious the donkey is rolling around in the dirt, saw the car coming, felt awkward, got up and walked away. Nothing to see here, move on.
- proales 14y agoThe conclusion is clearly wrong. The dust from the car is in the opposite direction and this indicates that the donkey was ahead of the Google Street View car, not behind it.
- Justin_Time 14y agoThis is a non-story. This occurred in Botswana, where cars drive on the left side of the road, so the donkey is in front of the car. You can also see the donkey standing by the side of the road if you move slightly further along.
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- Buzaga 14y agoThe donkey was obviously trying to fraud google into paying him millions of dollars in damages
- mseebach 14y agoThe chronology is backwards. The donkey was lying down, the car drives up to it, it gets up and moves aside. If you move backwards (with the right chronology), there's a car passing in the opposite direction, making the correct chronology obvious. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/01/never-ass-ume.html http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/01/never-ass-ume.htm...
- cvursache 14y agoThe donkey was basically asking for it. What was it doing in the middle of nowhere, anyways? Probably slacking while another donkey from China was doing the work for it for a sixth of the salary.
- gnee 14y agowow.