Saturday 16 May 2015

Google’s self driving car to hit public streets this Summer[See Pics]

Google has been working on self driving cars for more than four years. The tech giant is now announcing that it will begin testing these self driving cars on public roads in California starting this summer.

Google unveiled the self driving car prototype without steering wheel and brake last year in May. The company said that the prototype vehicles will have safety drivers present and will have a capped speed of 25mph. The prototypes will be running the same software as used by Google’s self-driving Lexus RX450h fleet. Google said its fleet has logged nearly a million miles of cumulative driving within its test facilities and that the program has ramped up to around 10,000 miles per week.

“We’re looking forward to learning how the community perceives and interacts with the vehicles, and to uncovering challenges that are unique to a fully self-driving vehicle—e.g., where it should stop if it can’t stop at its exact destination due to construction or congestion. In the coming years, we’d like to run small pilot programs with our prototypes to learn what people would like to do with vehicles like this.”
posted Google in a company blog.

Google said that the prototype car will also have removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal that allow them to take driving if needed.

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Protesters Storm Buhari’s Office Demand Death Penalty On Corrupt Politicians (See Pics)

A small crowd of protesters on Thursday stormed the Defence House in the Maitama area of Abuja, where Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari uses for his official engagements.

The young protesters want death penalty on corrupt politicians.

The protesters carried placards which read:

“Bring on death penalty on corruption, then all official thieves will become saints for the best of Nigeria; Corruption is the father of satan, kill it now and be saved;

“Bring on death penalty on corruption, then all honourable thieves will become saints for the best of Nigeria.

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Fayose Sends SOS To Police IG Over Increasing Kidnappings In Ekiti

The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has written a letter to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, calling for his intervention in the rising cases of kidnappings in the state in the last few weeks.

In a letter dated May, which he personally signed, Fayose requested the IG’s special intervention in removing the fear the people of the state were experiencing following numerous cases of abductions of innocent people.

The letter has been copied to all the other security chiefs in the country.

According to a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Friday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the governor promised the people that the situation would soon be put under control.

The letter read in part, “It is with great concern that I am appealing to you to help in our quest for a lasting solution to the spate of kidnappings and abductions in our dear state. The development has created fear in the minds of our people and no meaningful development can take place under such atmosphere.

“As a responsible government, we are taking all necessary steps to curtail and put an end to these dastardly acts, and we believe a special attention from your office on the matter to our state, would no doubt, lead to finding a quick solution to the problem”.

Governor Fayose cited instances where the police paid special attention to crisis situations in some parts of the country, saying that only recently, Mr. Arase dispatched a crack team to Edo State to help in curbing the activities of rampaging cultists in that state.

According to him, the intervention paid off as no new case of gang war has been reported in Edo State during the last few day.

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55 killed in Borno villages by boko haram

Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 55 people in Bale and Kayamla villages, two communities near Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Residents who spoke withAFPsaid the insurgents also burnt several homes after looting them before proceeding to the outskirts of Maiduguri, where they were crushed by troops.

“They killed 30 people in Kayamla and another 25 in Bale,” a vigilante official, Abacha Zinnari, said.

A resident of Bale, Husseini Ari, said the community on Thursday buried 25 people killed in the previous day’s raid while several others who were injured were taken to hospital.

“The village is mourning the death of 25 people killed in the Boko Haram attack who were buried yesterday,” Ari said.
A group of heavily armed Boko Haram fighters late Wednesday had launched an offensive on Maiduguri city which was repelled by troops from a military base on the outskirts of the city, according to the military and residents.

At least three soldiers, six vigilantes and dozens of Boko Haram insurgents were reportedly killed during clashes in Maiduguri on Wednesday evening, it was learnt.

The assault was the first on Maiduguri for three months and came after massive offensive attacks against Boko Haram strongholds by combined troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
The insurgents had raided Bale and Kayamla before the foiled assault on Maiduguri but the story was slow to emerge following a round-the-clock curfew imposed on the city by the military on Thursday, which restricted movements.

“The gunmen burnt around 50 houses and looted food stores and livestock,” said Ari, adding that the insurgents targeted homes they identified as belonging to vigilantes in the village.
Musa Kumbo, a resident of Kayamla, said at least 30 people were killed in the Boko Haram raid on the village and surrounding settlements.

“The attackers were heard shouting they would come back and finish their operation once they were done with Maiduguri,” Kumbo said.

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OPC, Ex-militants Set To Lose Contracts says president GMB

An investigation by Vanguard recently, indicates that there are plans to dismiss the security groups in charge of oil pipelines and waterways.

The man behind the process was a Director in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign
Organisation. He is in charge of liaising with experts in the sector and other people to work out the template for the new surveillance policy which will see the government revert back to the use of security agencies for the pipelines and waterways security. agencies form.

The incoming administration reportedly has plans to adequately fund the various security agencies thereby stopping the contract with some former Niger-Delta militants or groups like the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) in the South-west region. The contracts to awarded to these groups
reportedly runs into billions.

During his meeting with Rivers State chieftains of the aAPC, Buhari had on Wednesday, said his government won’t tolerate“an army within the army or a police within the police”in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, a member of the Board of Trustees of APC, Chief Sam Nkire said that Buhari would have to do away with the contracts if they were not properly awarded.

According to Nkire, the outgoing government of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, had a lot of underhand deals with some groups.

“Well, once a government has been swept away, it ceases to exist. The new government takes charge and whatever it decides to do, becomes the law. If the government or presidency of Buhari thinks those contracts were not properly given out or were not given to qualified people, of course, the government will
cancel those contracts.

“And from what I know of the incoming president, he will not waste a day to cancel those contracts because these are the reasons why Nigerians rejected the PDP government. Because, they did things that should not be done. They did things without recourse to the law.

“They did things with impunity and knowing Buhari as a man who abhors impunity; a man we can say is one of the incorruptible persons, I will be surprised if he does not revoke contracts that were wrongly awarded if he sees them”,Nkire said.

Buhari recently met with Chadian President, Idriss Deby, who was in the country to discuss the joint fight againstterrorist group, Boko Haram.

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