Googles New Robot Cop Solves LA Home Less Problem in Venice “Silicon Beach”

“Do you always harass the press when people are out on the street like this,” I asked him, as he kept blocking the camera and jamming his phone cam into our faces.

“No I don’t always harass the press. I only do it when the press harass us,” he replied.

Make no mistake -- the various government agencies which, in the late 1990s, helped fund the fledgling research projects that eventually became Google knew they were onto something. And this is exactly the kind of "return on investment" they were ultimately hoping for.

Today Venice Beach, tomorrow, the world!

This is where the reporter lost a lot of credibility, to me. Bike parts don't just appear from nowhere. The man he interviewed is operating a bike chop shop, and either he's too ignorant to know or too preoccupied with pushing his anti-Google agenda to care.