Google Street View: Innovation of Travel
Google Street View: Innovation of Traveling
A girl walked along the footpath and looked for the destination of her friend's house. She never been in that area before, but somehow the surroundings look familiar that she was on the right direction. This, of course, is not her supernatural premonition power. Anyone can access that navigation power like she did with only three simply words called "Google Street View".
Not everyone enjoy the use of Google Street View. One taxi driver shared his frustrated experience with the navigation system, ending up in wasting time and lost his direction. "People in the new generations always depend too much on technologies, which are not consistent," he said. He also added that one of the most stable and powerful tool in the world is our brain. "All routes and shortcuts are in my brain, The Global Positioning System (GPS) took less than 3 years in researching their route, but I took 15 years of driving experience." He refused to use the navigation system and rather suggest that human experience is the best tool for driving. "By using Street View, it will not help in finding location of my passengers," the taxi driver explained "Because every taxi has a service center, which will pick up calls and sent information of the passengers to us."
Google was accused of having collected the data while driving its vehicles through neighborhoods from 2008 to 2010 to collect photos for Street View. In March, Google agreed to pay $7 million to settle a probe into the matter involving 38 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. As part of that settlement, Google agreed to destroy data collected in the United States.
"It is fine that has my picture in the Google Street View because it blur my face, so no one can identify me," said Supakan's father, "But if the Google Street View shown the people identity, it would not be good for the one who is captured." The Google Street View can help people to go many places, and it also shows the
A girl walked along the footpath and looked for the destination of her friend's house. She never been in that area before, but somehow the surroundings look familiar that she was on the right direction. This, of course, is not her supernatural premonition power. Anyone can access that navigation power like she did with only three simply words called "Google Street View".
Not everyone enjoy the use of Google Street View. One taxi driver shared his frustrated experience with the navigation system, ending up in wasting time and lost his direction. "People in the new generations always depend too much on technologies, which are not consistent," he said. He also added that one of the most stable and powerful tool in the world is our brain. "All routes and shortcuts are in my brain, The Global Positioning System (GPS) took less than 3 years in researching their route, but I took 15 years of driving experience." He refused to use the navigation system and rather suggest that human experience is the best tool for driving. "By using Street View, it will not help in finding location of my passengers," the taxi driver explained "Because every taxi has a service center, which will pick up calls and sent information of the passengers to us."
Google was accused of having collected the data while driving its vehicles through neighborhoods from 2008 to 2010 to collect photos for Street View. In March, Google agreed to pay $7 million to settle a probe into the matter involving 38 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. As part of that settlement, Google agreed to destroy data collected in the United States.
"It is fine that has my picture in the Google Street View because it blur my face, so no one can identify me," said Supakan's father, "But if the Google Street View shown the people identity, it would not be good for the one who is captured." The Google Street View can help people to go many places, and it also shows the