A gas leak every mile: Google Street View cars find problems that utilities don’t

In older American cities like New York and Boston, there can be as many gas leaks as there are miles of road.

How do we know? Because Google drove those city streets – and mapped every leak.

In some communities, those funny-looking Google Street View cars driving around taking pictures of houses and storefronts are also sniffing for natural gas – part of an effort to detect and fix leaks before they become bigger problems.

Gregory Korte, USA TODAY

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/02/google-cars-sniff-natural-gas-leaks-old-utility-pipelines-explosions/1683173002/