This New Google Maps AI Tool Could Fix Congestion and Improve Roads Near You

A handful of new paid AI-powered tools are coming to Google Maps to help businesses and cities improve roads, manage traffic congestion and learn trends about local areas. At its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the company unveiled new Google Maps capabilities intended to change the way companies, cities and agencies such as local traffic authorities, make decisions. One of the new tools called Imagery Insights uses Street View alongside with Vertex AI (the company's AI experience builder) to help identify and detect objects, such as telephone poles and street signs. For example, if a telecom company wants to determine which utility poles require maintenance, they can use the information to not only better locate the poles but learn more about their conditions virtually. Yael Maguire, Google's Vice President and General Manager of Google Maps, told CNET the tool would allow companies to maintain these pieces of infrastructure without sending people to the actua ... Read full article.