To help alleviate the problem of disorderly parking of shared electric scooters, bird and lime are launching a new tool based on Google's "arcore geospatial" augmented reality geofence API The solutions proposed by two start-ups sharing travel are called "bird visual parking system" and "life visual positioning service".
During today's I / O 2022 developer conference, we learned that the positioning and recognition accuracy of API can be less than 1m.
Although some studies show that less than 1% of users Park randomly. However, considering the huge base of shared vehicles, such a situation will still greatly reduce the positive image of various brands in the eyes of the public.
Google pointed out that bird and lime were lucky to get early access to the company's arcore new technology. However, in the future, the API will also be promoted globally to help achieve more accurate location, direction, augmented reality and other experiences.
According to bird and lime, similar to the fantasmo camera positioning technology recently acquired by shared travel operator tier, VPS service will prompt riders to scan the surrounding environment through smart machines.
Then the system will compare the photos taken by the rider with Google's huge street view database, and determine whether the rider's position and parking are appropriate with the help of Google's 3D scanning and augmented reality technology.
At present, bird has launched a random pilot of VPS function in New York, San Francisco and San Diego, and plans to promote it to more cities in the next few weeks to months - the company claims to carry out business in more than 400 cities around the world, while Google has provided Street View coverage in 87 Market areas.
In addition, lime also has operations in 200 + cities around the world, and its VPS has opened flight tests in London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Madrid, Santiago and Bordeaux. It was found that the new tool helped to reduce random parking by 26%.