{"id":19434,"date":"2022-05-16T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2022-05-16T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T15:42:10","slug":"bird-scooters-use-google-ar-to-curb-illegal-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/16\/bird-scooters-use-google-ar-to-curb-illegal-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird scooters use Google AR to curb illegal parking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Building on yesterday&#8217;s post about Google&#8217;s new Geospatial API, developers can now embed a live view featuring a camera feed + augmentations, and developers like Bird are wasting no time in putting it to use. TNW <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/bird-unveils-new-ar-tools-to-curb-illegal-escooter-parking\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When parking a scooter, the app prompts a rider to quickly scan the QR code on the vehicle and its surrounding area using their smartphone camera&#8230; [T]his results in precise, centimeter-level geolocation that enables the system to detect and prevent improper parking with extreme accuracy \u2014 all while helping monitor user behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bird-vps-powered-google-change-scooter-parking-forever-4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bird-vps-powered-google-change-scooter-parking-forever-4-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bird-vps-powered-google-change-scooter-parking-forever-4-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bird-vps-powered-google-change-scooter-parking-forever-4-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bird-vps-powered-google-change-scooter-parking-forever-4-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bird-vps-powered-google-change-scooter-parking-forever-4-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bird-vps-powered-google-change-scooter-parking-forever-4.jpeg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Bird.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TechCrunch <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/05\/11\/bird-lime-to-use-googles-arcore-to-power-scooter-parking-solution\/\">adds<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Out of the over 200 cities that Lime serves, its VPS is live now in six: London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Madrid, San Diego and Bordeaux. Similar to Bird, Lime\u2019s pilot involves testing the tech with a portion of riders. The company&nbsp;said results from its pilots have been promising, with those who used the new tool seeing a 26% decrease in parking errors compared to riders who didn\u2019t have the tool enabled.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building on yesterday&#8217;s post about Google&#8217;s new Geospatial API, developers can now embed a live view featuring a camera feed + augmentations, and developers like Bird are wasting no time in putting it to use. TNW writes, When parking a scooter, the app prompts a rider to quickly scan the QR code on the vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19442,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/19442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}