The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects
New York City's transit authority is one of a few US systems experimenting with using sensors and AI to improve track ...
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.
The G train is getting new open gangway subway cars
New open gangway cars begin service on the G line Tuesday, the MTA announced. One open gangway subway train, the R211T, already started service on the G line, and ...
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New York’s MTA strapped Google Pixels to moving subway cars, for science
In partnership with Google, the Metro Transit Authority took to tying several Google Pixel phones to subway cars in ...
Google Pixel phones took a free ride on the New York subway for a unique experiment
Google and New York Metro Transit authority came together to perform an experiment to gain insights on track-safety.
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Open gangway subway cars debut on the G line
The MTA debuted its open gangway R211T subway cars on the G line at the Church Avenue station in Brooklyn, in service between ...
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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 City’s Metropolitan Transit ... retrofitting Google’s Pixel smartphones to certain subway cars to collect sounds and other data and feed it into Google ...
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‘Open gangway’ subway trains debut on Brooklyn’s G line: ‘It’s refreshing’
The MTA rolled out its first “open gangway” subway train on the G line Tuesday, with more expected to enter service in the ...