Google Cars Sniffing Out Gas Leaks

Last twelvemonth Google teamed upwards alongside the Environmental Defense Fund to equip Street View cars alongside air-quality sensors to detect natural gas leaks from utility pipes nether urban heart streets. Using the information collected past times the Street View cars Google as well as EDF as well as then exercise detailed maps showing where gas leaks are occurring as well as where gas pipes take away to last fixed or replaced.

In July 2014 the EDF released maps from the experiment inward New York, Boston as well as Philadelphia. The maps revealed that Boston as well as New York's ageing utility pipes consequence inward a large publish of leaks, acre Philadelphia's newer gas pipage network is responsible for far fewer leaks.

Google has straightaway used their especially equipped Street View cars to map out to a greater extent than than 1,000 miles of roads inward Inglewood, Chino as well as Pasadena. You tin destination encounter the results of the latest gas leak campaign inward the EDF's Los Angeles Area: Snapshot of Natural Gas Leaks map. The information gathered revealed an average of nigh 1 leak for every 4 miles driven inward Pasadena, 1 leak for every 5 miles inward Inglewood as well as 1 leak for every 5 miles inward Chino.