During the week, I received my Google Timeline update.

I get one each month. This is because I have Location Services turned on. and am quite happy to share my location data.

I have nothing to hide.

It’s sometimes interesting to look back over the month and year to see where I have been.

Google knows exactly where I’ve been.

It also knows how long I spent there.

And it gives a breakdown of how many miles I have walked and how many miles I have driven.

Further to that, it even knows whether I have travelled there by car on my motorbike.

I kid ye not: it knows whether I drove or rode somewhere.

And it is spookily accurate.

Me, Son and a couple of mates took a short ride out today. Not too far as it’s way too hot.  Basically, we took a ride out to the nearest place to get a full English breakfast.

And Google knows.

How? How can it know? How can it know that I was on my bike and not in the car?

Next time, I might go there in the car, but wear my crash helmet.

Let’s see it’s little AI algorithm work that one out!