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How Google Maps will Likely Reduce Hard-braking Events on roads

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining traction and proving to be a problem solver to many human related tasks.

As population across the globe surge, the number of vehicle owners is drastically on the rise. Giant tech Google is striving to deploy Maps in guiding road users to avoid using “confusing lane changes or freeway exits”.

In a Google blog dubbed “A smoother ride and a more detailed map thanks to AI”, Google explains how maps will be used to identify and predict when people are striking the brakes. The AI product is tailored to use the available information and AI to detect hard-breaking events.

The Giant tech believes that their product will help to eradicate “more than 100 million hard-braking events in routes that are driven with Google Maps every year” and enable drivers to be cautious at certain places.

Understanding Google Maps

Google Maps are essential to the extent that they assist individuals to explore, navigate and make things done in an easier and manageable way. 

The technology used in Google Maps is derived from “using flocks of sheep and laser beams to collect high-definition imagery to forecasting traffic jams that haven’t even occurred yet”.

How AI will be used?

According to Google, AI will be used to train their machine learning simulations on two sets of data. The first data will be fetched from phones using Google Maps. Mobile phone sensors will relay information about deceleration along a route. 

Another set of information can be tapped from routes driven with Google Maps when projected on car’s display such as Android Auto. 

The second set of data is set to eliminate distortion that might have occurred in the first set such as a phone accidentally falling while driving or other factors that can influence a phone sensor.

Apart from understanding spots that are most probable to hard-braking, Google is also working to ascertain other circumstantial factors that might result to hard-braking events. These factors include visibility and road construction among others.

AI Beyond driving

AI as has been mentioned earlier endeavors to solve people’s problems. Apart from driving, AI is also essential for those individuals who walk, cycle or use public transport.

Last August, Google launched detailed street maps that illustrate details about pedestrian islands, cross walks, sidewalks as well as accurate road widths in an area.

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