Comments on: Google Street View Car Busted?

By: rhea

rhea — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:22:18 +0000

@Pregnancy,

But if they use satellite, I don’t think we will be able to see the pictures as if we are walking the street. The top view I guess, they use satellite, but not the street view.

By: Thanksgiving Recipes

Thanksgiving Recipes — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:07:48 +0000

who needs a car with a damn camera on it driving around, its bad enough you can type in an address and now actually view the street as if you were standing there. pretty dangerous if you ask me

By: Pregnancy

Pregnancy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:50:16 +0000

Wow so that’s how they do it!I always thought they used the satellite for that. So much less impressive.

By: Fleminem

Fleminem — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:15:52 +0000

Hi guyz…look: the car u see in the picture is a Google car, and then…yes, there are also black cars in other countries, I mean in Europe (Italy). I’m a Google car driver from Italy, I drive a black car Opel astra model, and I’ve got the same kind of cameras on the top of my car. I can’t tell you nothing more, anyway i think it’s a wonderful job, i like it so much, and i hope to come in the States soon…take it easy…bye.

By: Key West Joe

Key West Joe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:09:08 +0000

I don’t know about “ALL” Google Streetview cars being black. The one that mapped the keys was gray, as can be seen if you enter ‘878 Center Street Key West Florida’ and look down. In my unproffesional opinion, they all look like rental cars.
p.s. there’s a glitch in the street view if you go down (south) Duval Street in Key West at address 858 that jumps you over to Center Street and back.

By: rhea

rhea — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:11:20 +0000

Yeah, I had thought of that too… but as I mentioned on my previous comment I saw some street view cars that looked similar to that car that was busted.

Anyways, here’s the link where the photo (I cropped) came from.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/damianspain/2584018127/

And here’s one post from Blogoscoped with a photo that showed a streetview’s door with Google logo.

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-street-view-italy.jpg

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:26:01 +0000

That Google logo on the door looks (badly) Photoshopped to me…

By: rhea

rhea — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:17:57 +0000

It is. If you look closely at car’s right door, there’s a Google logo there. I also know most other Google street view cars are black…but here are other images showing a streetview car that isn’t black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Google_street_view_car_Japan.JPG

http://valleywag.com/tech/google/avoid-this-google-street-view-car-326397.php

By: KC

KC — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:04:53 +0000

That’s not a google car. They are all uniform and all black. While hthe cameras are not hidden, they are far from that obvious. I don’t know why that guy has 4 wide view camera mounted on to a roof totem, but he deffinetly isn’t with google.

By: Reuben

Reuben — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:00:57 +0000

google uses cobalts though…