Walking directions that avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods
Geekwire reports:
Microsoft was issued a patent on a computer system for “pedestrian route production” — better known as walking directions — that automatically adjusts the route for the unique conditions encountered by a person going from place to place on foot.
According to the patent, the system could “construct a direction set that allows the user to take paths that take him to his home in a quickest amount of time while keeping the user relatively safe (e.g., taking the user through neighborhoods with violent crime statistics below a certain threshold).”
(Source: geekwire.com)
