Last twelvemonth Google teamed upwards amongst the Environmental Defense Fund to equip Street View cars amongst air-quality sensors to detect natural gas leaks from utility pipes nether metropolis streets. Using the information collected past times the Street View cars Google as well as EDF as well as hence practise detailed maps showing where gas leaks are occurring as well as where gas pipes ask to endure fixed or replaced.
In July 2014 the EDF released maps from the experiment inward New York, Boston as well as Philadelphia. The maps revealed that Boston as well as New York's ageing utility pipes number inward a large number of leaks, piece Philadelphia's newer gas pipage network is responsible for far fewer leaks.
Google has directly used their especially equipped Street View cars to map out to a greater extent than than 1,000 miles of roads inward Inglewood, Chino as well as Pasadena. You tin come across the results of the latest gas leak crusade inward the EDF's Los Angeles Area: Snapshot of Natural Gas Leaks map. The information gathered revealed an average of nearly i leak for every iv miles driven inward Pasadena, i leak for every 5 miles inward Inglewood as well as i leak for every 5 miles inward Chino.
