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kreiger-69 t1_ityx7n6 wrote

Reply to comment by inferno006 in Android phones offered early US quake warning, beating iPhones to the punch | Google's earthquake detection network turns Android phones into seismometers, and it paid off yesterday. by chrisdh79

>being used to investigate bombings and pinpointing epicenters of incidents like that?

Don't they have microphones in the USA at traffic lights or something where they can poinpoint where a gunshot came from so they can send police there?

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inferno006 t1_itz35gx wrote

The technology exists, but it is not widespread. Some places have it.

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xXSpaceturdXx t1_ityz4oy wrote

Last I heard in my city they were only using them in certain areas. But yes they do have that tech. They may have expanded it here because they really cracked down on people shooting straight up into the sky. They made a new law for it and everything. It doesn’t stop it though. Guy at my work had a 40 Cal round come through the roof onto the floor in front of his desk. He didn’t want to sit in there for a week. Another friend of mine had one go through his roof and out the window on his truck. But that was in a different city.

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nuclear_splines t1_iu148zu wrote

SpotShotter? Technically yes, but it works terribly. Even the Wikipedia articles second sentence reads “researchers have noted concerns about effectiveness, reliability, privacy, and equity [of ShotSpotter]”

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