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In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to strip federal abortion rights in the U.S., many persons are questioning how the apps they use each and every day could possibly suddenly be turned towards them.

As considerations mount about the unlimited perfectly of knowledge that tech businesses crafted an whole industry around, Google is taking at minimum a single stage to mitigate some likely hurt related to locale monitoring.

The company announced Friday in a website put up that it would take away area heritage facts about some “particularly personal” destinations from a Google account shortly following somebody visits. Locations that will have their knowledge deleted incorporate “medical amenities like counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, abortion clinics, fertility facilities, dependancy remedy facilities, excess weight decline clinics, cosmetic medical procedures clinics, and some others,” in accordance to the weblog.

Google also noted that Fitbit users who use the device’s companion

The concept of
smart roads is not new. It includes efforts like traffic lights that automatically adjust their timing based on sensor data and streetlights that automatically adjust their brightness to reduce energy consumption. PerceptIn, of which coauthor Liu is founder and CEO, has demonstrated at its own test track, in Beijing, that streetlight control can make traffic 40 percent more efficient. (Liu and coauthor Gaudiot, Liu’s former doctoral advisor at the University of California, Irvine, often collaborate on autonomous driving projects.)

But these are piecemeal changes. We propose a much more ambitious approach that combines intelligent roads and intelligent vehicles into an integrated, fully intelligent transportation system. The sheer amount and accuracy of the combined information will allow such a system to reach unparalleled levels of safety and efficiency.

Human drivers have a
crash rate of 4.2 accidents per million miles; autonomous cars must do much better