Google ran afoul of data protection officials from Europe to Hong Kong when it admitted that its StreetView mapping vehicles had collected private data from home Wi-Fi routers as the cars were compiling their panoramic maps.
Google ran afoul of data protection officials from Europe to Hong Kong when it acknowledged that its Street View mapping vehicles had collected private data from Wi-Fi routers as the cars were compiling panoramic maps.
Google faced worldwide scrutiny from regulators, and had to pay fines, after it emerged that its Streetview mapping vehicles had collected massive amounts of data broadcast publicly by Wi-Fi networks, computers and mobiles in many countries.
Last year, Google apologized to privacy officials around the world, and paid some fines, after it was revealed that Google's roving Street View mapping vehicles were also collecting private data from unencrypted Wi-Fi routers.
Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the "ground truth" data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this "probe data" sent back from iPhones.
Osram Opto Semiconductors has announced the availability of a LIDAR package – essentially the spinning laser array found on self-driving and mapping vehicles – that costs $5 and works as well as $70,000 tower systems and hockey-puck sized $8,000 systems.
The second evaluation dataset consists of 15 km of video captured in the urban and suburban areas of Hasselt and Diepenbeek, Belgium, using one of the mobile mapping vehicles of Grontmij Belgium.
Some people have commented that Apple's rigs look more robust than the simple GPS + Camera arrangements on other mapping vehicles — going so far as to say they look more along the lines of something that could be used in autonomous vehicle training.
The platform is going to be installed on an OSGi [9] framework, so that OSGi UPnP services can map vehicle devices.
When asked about an image dug up from a private Uber driver Facebook group by TechCrunch reader Dave Craige (seen below), Uber admitted that this is a mapping vehicle piloted by a human driver, like a Google Street View car, not a self-driving car prototype.
