Friday, 16 February 2018
Google recently tested new tech to help 911 dispatchers find callers more quickly and more accurately. 80 percent of the calls made with Google’s tech were more accurate than calls made via cell phone carriers. Retrieving data from the phone itself (rather than the carrier) allows Google to get a read on location. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google’s calls were able to narrow the caller’s location down to within a radius of 121 feet. Calls tracked solely off carrier data could only narrow it down to 522 feet. Google collaborated with emergency services in other countries in the past.…
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