Google Street View Car Busted?
So, there’s no exception for Google’s car?
One of the vigilant citizens of California, damianspain, caught one of Google’s street view cars being detained for some sort of traffic violation in San Francisco Bay area. I just found this out when my friend send me a link to this post.
I’m actually impressed on the kind of camera Google is using to snap those ’street view’ photos for Google Maps and Google Earth. And I wonder when will those Google cars visit Metro Manila, and see the cars myself; though I’m sure the possibility is slim, or will take years before it happens. Most streets here aren’t ‘photogenic’. Sigh.
google uses cobalts though…
June 25th, 2008 at 2:00 pmThat’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.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:04 pmIt 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
June 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pmThat Google logo on the door looks (badly) Photoshopped to me…
June 26th, 2008 at 9:26 amYeah, 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
June 26th, 2008 at 10:11 amI 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.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:09 amp.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.
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.
October 4th, 2008 at 3:15 pmWow so that’s how they do it!I always thought they used the satellite for that. So much less impressive.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:50 pmwho 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
October 8th, 2008 at 12:07 pm@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.
October 13th, 2008 at 3:22 pm