The idea is to get relevant information fast, instead of what usually happens, which is getting information long after a crisis is over, said Robert Kirkpatrick, director of Global Pulse, who spoke today at a technology and human rights conference in Berkeley, Calif.

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In May, Google reported that the cars collected just fragments of information, but that they were moving too fast to get anything more than that.

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People are bound to get in an uproar over this, largely thanks to how fast social media spreads controversial information.

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