Google Says It's Open To Releasing Driverless Car Accident Reports
Google Founder Sergey Brin, who's leading the company's autonomous car project, is open to the idea of releasing accident reports for crashes involving Google’s robot cars, he said during Google’s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday, a Consumer Watchdog news release said.…
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Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project Director John Simpson, a Google shareholder, raised questions about the privacy and safety issues involving Google’s driverless cars and asked Google to release complete details of accidents, including all formal accident reports, the release said. Google has acknowledged its robot cars have been involved in 11 crashes since the company began testing them on public highways in California, but has made public only generic descriptions of the crashes. When Simpson asked if Google would protect the privacy of driverless car owners by not using for other purposes such as marketing the information gathered to operate the vehicles, Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said, according to the Consumer Watchdog release, that would “reduce innovation and our ability to deliver a great consumer product.”