1. This May 13, 2014, file photo shows a Google self-driving Lexus at a Google event outside the Com-
puter History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Google will release monthly reports on the perform-
ance of its self-driving cars, and it disclosed summaries of the accidents that involved the vehicles. The
company said Friday, June 5, 2015, as it has in the past, that its cars were not to blame for any of the
accidents. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Performance Reports of the above Cars :
Google is disclosing more details about the 12 accidents involving its self-driving cars so far
as part of a commitment to provide monthly updates about the safety and performance of the
vehicles.
The summary released Friday described all of the collisions as minor, saying no injuries
were reported. As it has been doing for several weeks, Google said that the self-driving
technology was not to blame for any of the accidents. ..
In one case, however, an employee used the self-driving car to run an errand and rear-ended
another car that was stopped in traffic. Google had previously disclosed that accident, which
happened in August 2011.
Google's breakdown of the accidents came just two days after company co-founder Sergey
Brin told shareholders that the company had already disclosed most of the pertinent informa-
tion about the crashes .
Consumer Watchdog, a group that has been a longtime Google critic, has been pushing the
Mountain View, California, company to release all of the accident reports filed with the
California Department of Motor Vehicles and other law enforcement agencies. Dissatisfied
with Google's accounting, Consumer Watchdog on Friday renewed its call for the company
to release the official accident reports.
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Arise & Awake till
The Goal is reached :
Swami Vivekananda
Special points of interest:
 Motivating :
 Inspiring :
 Synergizing &
Energizing
 Simplicity & Tao of DFM
Inside this issue:
Self Driving Cars of
Google
1
Self Driving Cars of
Google
2
Bladeless Windmill 2
Bladeless Windmill 3
Editor Speaks 4
Google Releases Details on Self-Driving Car’s
Accidents– Transparent Story of Struggles to Innovate
I & D News
Editor: Er Ramalingam– DFM & Innovation Consultant
June –2015
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2. The Associated Press has asked Google and the California Department of Motor
Vehicles for the reports. Both have refused, citing privacy concerns. While the
latest disclosures fell short of providing the official accident reports, they did
give previously unreleased information on the locations and dates and circum-
stances of the 12 accidents..
Google Inc. started testing the cars in 2009, and the first accident was in May
2010.The company says six of the accidents happened while the car was in
autonomous driving mode. The other six happened while staffers were driving,
including one incident where the car was hit by another driver who rolled
through a stop sign. Google says the self-driving car automatically applied the
brakes when it detected the other vehicle, and Google's driver took manual con-
trol once the brakes were applied. While several of the accidents happened at
low speeds or while the car was stopped, in one case a Google vehicle vehicle
was driving 63 miles per hour on a highway in San Jose, California, when an-
other vehicle veered into its side. Google's cars have been involved in four acci-
dents so far this year, according to the company. It says the cars travel about
10,000 miles a week on public streets. The vehicles have driven about one mil-
lion miles in autonomous mode and Google's drivers have been in control for
800,000 additional miles. Thanks to Advantage Business Media
Spanish startup Vortex Bladeless has developed turbines that harness ,velocity, the
spinning motion of air or other fluids. When wind passes one of the cylindrical tur-
bines, it shears off the downwind side of the cylinder in a spinning whirlpool or vortex.
That vortex then exerts force on the cylinder, causing it to vibrate. The kinetic energy
of the oscillating cylinder is converted to electricity through a linear generator similar to
those used to harness wave energy.
David Yáñez, one of the company’s cofounders, first came across the concept as a
student studying the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington. The
bridge collapsed in 1940 due to excessive vibrations formed by the spinning motion of
wind as it blew past the bridge and is a textbook engineering failure. Yáñez, however,
learned a different lesson. “This is a very good way to transmit energy from a fluid to a
structure,” he says.( I & D Professionals to note )
Bladeless Windmill Being Launched
Google’s Self Driven Cars Update—continued
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3. In addition to capturing less energy, oscillating cylinders can’t convert as much of
that energy into electricity, Hansen says. A conventional wind turbine typically con-
verts 80 to 90 percent of the kinetic energy of its spinning rotor into electricity. Yáñez
says his company’s custom-built linear generator will have a conversion efficiency of
70 percent.
Yáñez concedes that the oscillating turbine design will sweep a smaller area and
have a lower conversion efficiency, but says significant reductions in manufacturing
and maintenance costs will outweigh the losses..
Thanks to ‘Technology Review “
Vortex’s lightweight cylinder design has no gears or bearings. Yáñez says it will gener-
ate electricity for 40 percent less than the cost of power from conventional wind tur-
bines. The company has received $1 million in private capital and government funding
in Spain and is seeking another $5 million in venture capital funding. Yáñez says the
company plans to release a four-kilowatt system in 2016 and a much larger one-
megawatt device around 2018.
The Vortex turbine sounds promising, but like any radical new alternative energy de-
sign, bladeless turbines have plenty of skeptics.
Bladeless Windmill Being Launched
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Innovation means doing things differently, making a big difference and
making impossible possible.
* Innovations can be done through any of the following ways:
Inventing something new
Generating new ideas only
Improving something that already exists
Spreading new ideas
* Performing an existing task in a new way
* Following the market leader
Adopting something that has been
successfully tried elsewhere
Introducing changes
Attracting innovative people
Seeing something from a different perspective &
Simplicity instead of complexity.
More will follow on the other Three Pillars :
Entrepreneurship, Manufacturability & Governmental Supports
Pillars of ‘Make-in-India ‘- First Pillar—Innovation
Er Ramalingam,the Editor Speaks