Google’s Cameras Now Judge Your Driveway, Charge You $20 Monthly for It
KEY POINTS
- •Anish Kattukaran announced improvements to Google Home, including a new 'Live Search' camera feature on May 22, 2025.
- •This feature allows users to ask their Google Home if there is a car currently in their driveway, not just from past footage.
- •Using Live Search requires a $20 monthly or $200 yearly subscription to Google Home’s Advanced plan.
Anish Kattukaran, the grand poobah of Google Home, graced us with a new 'Live Search' feature that makes your cameras suddenly very nosy. As of May 22, 2025, instead of Gemini just gossiping about past events, it now analyzes live feeds asking, 'Hey Google, is there a car in my driveway?' But don’t get too excited: access requires a $20/month or $200/year subscription to Google Home’s Advanced plan, because Google figured you need to pay premium for your own cameras tattling on live action at your house. Kind of like paying for a private investigator who doesn’t leave the yard.
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(1 of 3)We’re all terrible drivers of our own lives, but now Google's charging $20/month to tattletale on actual cars in your driveway. Privacy? Nah, that’s advanced premium.
Google’s new Live Search costs $20/month to watch your driveway because apparently your dumb surveillance system wasn’t nosy enough already.
Congrats, you can now pay Google to confirm that your driveway is as empty as your motivation on Monday mornings.
Source: Theverge | Published: 3/3/2026 | Author: Thomas Ricker
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