Tired of subway delays? The MTA wants to fix that by strapping Google smartphones to New York trains
Google partnered with the MTA on a pilot program that involved using sounds recorded on smartphones attached to trains to detect track issues before they occur.
Wired19d
The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects
Between September and January, six Google Pixel smartphones hitched free rides on four New York City subway ... 10-minute snippets of track noise to sort the regular subway din from audio ...
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Tired of subway delays? The MTA wants to fix that by strapping Google smartphones to New York trains
Rob Sarno has been with the New York ... subway cars to collect sounds and other data and feed it into Google’s Cloud. The data is then analyzed to spot patterns that could indicate track ...
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Tired of subway delays? The MTA wants to fix that by strapping Google smartphones to New York trains
New York (CNN ... to certain subway cars to collect sounds and other data and feed it into Google’s Cloud. The data is then analyzed to spot patterns that could indicate track defects ...
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18 injured after New York City subway track fire, station fills with smoke
NEW YORK -- Eighteen people were injured after a track fire was reported on the No.1 subway track, filling a New York City station with smoke, MTA officials said. Thick gray smoke billowed out of ...
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He Was Once the ‘Subway Ninja.’ He Would Like to Explain.
Selwyn Bernardez was charged with the kind of violent subway attack that stokes public fears.Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times Supported ... the program is on track to raise billions ...
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MTA studying technology to identify dangerous subway track debris. How a smartphone might help.
The investigation into what sparked a fire on a subway train ... object on the track and third rail at the 191st Street Station. In a one-on-one interview with CBS News New York, MTA Transit ...