Monday, November 4, 2024

MEET THE WHEELCHAIR USER MAKING GOOGLE MAPS MORE ACCESSIBLE

 SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN



“The first project that I worked on when I came here was about how Maps handles reviews,” says Sasha Blair-Goldensohn.

“A restaurant might have 3,000 reviews and want to be able to throw all of them into the AI blender and have it pop out a summary:

 ‘People say this place has great soup dumplings, really long lines and it gets super crowded.’”

Though his work at Google touched on its Maps technology, he wasn’t thinking much about the actual route-finding features — how people get from A to B.

That changed one morning while he was walking through Central Park to catch the subway and a 100-pound tree limb fell on him.

The limb fractured his skull and he sustained a T5 spinal cord injury.

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