The chronology is backwards. The donkey was lying down, the car drives up to it, it gets up and moves aside. If you move backwards (with the right chronology), there's a car passing in the opposite direction, making the correct chronology obvious.
It looks to me like the donkey started rolling around in the dirt after the car went by.... (Disclaimer: I know nothing about donkeys). Its interesting that you can kind of see what happened by shuffling forward and back on the images.
Good spot. Also, if you move along and look to the side, you can see the donkey standing by the side of the road as the car goes past.
This is a non-story. This occurred in Botswana, where cars drive on the left side of the road, so the donkey is in front of the car. You can also see the donkey standing by the side of the road if you move slightly further along.
The conclusion is clearly wrong. The dust from the car is in the opposite direction and this indicates that the donkey was ahead of the Google Street View car, not behind it.
It's obvious the donkey is rolling around in the dirt, saw the car coming, felt awkward, got up and walked away. Nothing to see here, move on.
When I first read the title I thought it was a self-driving car and thought "oh fuck, people will go nuts over this"
My thoughts exactly!
The donkey was basically asking for it. What was it doing in the middle of nowhere, anyways? Probably slacking while another donkey from China was doing the work for it for a sixth of the salary.
I thought this was about their autonomous cars at first. That would have been interesting.
This is just another random Street View driver error.
Nah, this turned out to be interpretation error; the Street View driver acted ethically. See other comments on this page.
Flap closed, donkey fine.
wow.
The donkey was obviously trying to fraud google into paying him millions of dollars in damages
Another way Google is making an ass of itself. (sorry had to be said)