Google Glass explorer gets pulled over, pleads not guilty to distracted driving charge

A California woman wearing Google Glass was pulled over and charged for going 80 mph in a 65 mph zone in San Diego. The first known incident regarding Google's wearable computer behind the wheel, it calls attention to a polarizing product that's started a revolution in heads up devices but brought out all manner of torches and pitchforks in defense of privacy.

Cecilia Abadie, who pleaded not guilty to the distracted driving charge as well as the speeding charge,  is a software developer and among the 30,000 'explorers' chosen by Google to test-drive the new technology while paying the software giant US $1,500 for the privilege. Glass is supposed to come to the mainstream this year but the pricing has not yet been revealed.

"It's a big responsibility for me and also for the judge who is going to interpret a very old law compared with how fast technology is changing," Abadie explained, she wears Google Glass up to 12 hours a day.

Abadie claims the Glasses were not on while she was driving.

Source: Calgary Herald

Update on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 11:33PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Case dismissed

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