Driverless cars require minutely detailed street imagery.
Google's Street View mapping service offers detailed street-level images of cities worldwide.
This means that mapping even small brain regions is a problem comparable to producing detailed street-level maps of the entire world.
In 2011 Google revealed it was developing fully autonomous cars, using its detailed street maps, an array of laser sensors and smart software.
The G.P.S. program provides the most detailed street coverage in France; in other countries, only major highways and major cities are mapped in detail; (800) 221-1052 or at www.renaultusa.com.
I get a nice, detailed street map and spread it out on a table, and trace my route with a pencil to orient myself.
Thomas Guide is the title of a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, including Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
Instead I invested in a detailed street map and a good phrasebook and used the internet to fill in the gap in my bag where my Lonely Planet used to be.
Either way, Google's huge investment in the camera-equipped cars — not to mention trikes, boats, snowmobiles and, yes, rafts — has yielded the most detailed street atlas on earth.
