Posted on 09/18/2018 5:08:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Google's new pollution police, coming to patrol near you
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 18, 2018
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Google’s Street View cars — the global cruisers that collect data for the making of more accurate maps — now have a new mission, and it’s one that’s sure to make the Green groups cheer. The tech company’s bolstering its fleet with updated pollution-recording devices from the San Francisco company, Aclima, to patrol streets in Europe and in the United States, and monitor fluctuating levels of air quality.
And all those findings will no doubt soon find their ways into the welcoming regulatory arms of environmentally conscious (read: leftist-leaning) politicians.
Drivers, prepare for the environmental regulations.
Businesses, make way for the costly controls.
Builders, get prepped to pay big for those permits.
Homeowners, stand ready to pinch some more pennies for fuel and electric prices.
It won’t be long before do-goody governments take the data from these Street View vehicles and use it to justify more crackdowns on, say, carbon dioxide, or on whatever other gaseous emissions they deem worthy of cutting.
Liberals already hate America’s love affair with cars. Imagine the arguments they can make against driving and in favor of rail, or buses, or bicycles — or walking — armed with the latest breaking snapshot figures on pollution levels, as recorded during a city’s rush hour. The possibilities for fear-mongering are endless.
Mark these words: This is technology that’s going to come back with a bite against average Jane and Joe Citizen, all under guise of preserving and conserving and saving, radical environmentalist style.
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>>Google’s Street View cars — the global cruisers that collect data for the making of more accurate maps — now have a new mission, and it’s one that’s sure to make the Green groups cheer. The tech company’s bolstering its fleet with updated pollution-recording devices from the San Francisco company, Aclima, to patrol streets in Europe and in the United States, and monitor fluctuating levels of air quality.
why don’t they patrol the Streets of San Fransicko looking for poop pollution on the streets?
It could be a reboot tv franchise for Netsux.
Any one of those cars comes up our road will be disappeared. (over 200sq miles of forest).
I would have said Chicago to find street hoods with guns but the car would be jacked I bet.
why bother? the data will all be normed to San Francisco anyway!!
Screw them. If it’s really an emergency they should start monitoring in Beijing and Shanghai first.
Those Google employees only want to take drives through very scenic country and get great pay for doing so.
Hey google, let’s see the numbers for San Fransisco, ok?:
He warned that once fecal matter dries, it can become airborne, releasing potentially dangerous viruses, such as the rotavirus. “If you happen to inhale that, it can also go into your intestine,” he said.
“The contamination is … much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India,” he said. He notes that in those countries, slum dwellings are often long-term homes for families and so there is an attempt to make the surroundings more livable. Homeless communities in San Francisco, however, are often kicked out from one part of town and forced to relocate to another. The result is extreme contamination, according to Riley.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Diseased-Streets-472430013.html
I refuse to capitulate to pollution control until the FBI investigates.
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