Google always have crazy ideas, but sometimes their ideas also require some sacrifices. During their Google I/O event, they announced collaboration with Ford to improve our driving experiences.

You see, our driving habits affect the gas mileage we get, and if our cars could predict our preferred travel patterns they could optimize powertrain performance to max out our MPGs. That’s why the Blue Oval Boys plan to use Google’s Prediction API to learn our driving habits and combine that data with real time traffic info to make its cars increasingly efficient.

Sounds familiar? Well, soon Google will have a massive database of our driving habits, driving locations, and even records of our driving speed. I’m looking forward to see some people yelling “privacy invasion” soon when they implement this.

The system isn’t yet ready for showrooms, as there is work to be done securing the personal data and location awareness information it collects, so that means there are still quite some time before Android really invades our dashboards.

SOURCE via CNET