Another Google Project Helps Self-Driving Cars

Google Photos can help Google to successfully launch driverless cars in the industry

In last May, Google introduced a new facility that permit users to store and upload an unlimited number of videos and pictures free. A contributor at Forbes, Sam Abuelsamid, uploaded his 15-year archive of digital pictures to ensure that he has an offline backup of his family memories.

For him and many others, Google Photos was still amazing free service by the search company. Nevertheless, it usually thinks about larger plans and its photos facility is probably playing a quite significant role in its ongoing autonomous driving car program.

For an individual to successfully and safely control a car, the capability to view the road ahead, identify animals, objects and people  that may be near the path of one’s car and then react in an appropriate manner is essential.

Obviously, human beings frequently take incorrect decisions almost daily in their lives, but a human brain is quite remarkably adaptable and cunning enough to identify nuances that some computers yet struggle with at this time.

This is where Photos needs to play a role, but we need to go 10 years back. In 2007, smartphones used to represent a small segment of the market for phones, used mostly by technology geeks and businessmen. For an ordinary cellphone user, if he/she did not had a number stored in the normal limited memory of the device or in their own mind, it required a phone call to the directory assistance of the carrier, which would frequently charge a dollar or more to find a number and call.

The search engine developer viewed this opportunity and introduced a free directory facility, GOOG-411. Besides just earning money, the huge reason that telecoms charged such a huge amount to find a number was to pay the person who really did the work.

A call to GOOG-411 would bring an automatic voice asking for what the caller was searching. After hearing the response and parsing the language, the server would repeat whatever it thought it listened and question whether it was correct.

In the past years, the organization had the most robust and reliable voice-recognition tech system in the world. Once smartphones become ubiquitous, GOOG-411 was retired, but the voice recognition powering it was integrated into Android and Google search.

The importance of Photos for the success of the self-driving vehicle program is highlighted at a time when The Country Caller compared it with Tesla’s Autopilot and informed that 1.5 million miles have been covered by Google’s self-driving cars.