Google Earth Car Spotted Stealing Souls in SoHo!

googleearthcar.jpg Have you ever actually seen a Google Earth car roaming around and capturing souls with its sophisticated camera technology? Nylon has a photo of one that was seen on Mercer and Houston streets in SoHo yesterday. They note, "The wild contraptions above the car record the latitute, longitute, and elevation of every place the car goes, while the camera snaps… well, you know, you’ve stalked your friends’ houses on Google Earth a million times before." Currently you can't go down Mercer on Google Maps, so we're guessing that's all about to change, and finally the world can glance upon yet another SoHo street.

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The must be "wild contraptions" to record latitute and longitute. Science is so hard!

The thing is, compared to Tokyo, London, Paris, Amsterdam, even podunk South Carolina, New York's streetview pictures look rushed, blurry, and low quality. While they're here, they can please update the rest of the city? It's kind of embarrassing.

They're getting around to it. Cities like Chicago, New York, San Francisco...these were done in the first batch of recordings. The foreign cities were JUST added recently. I've seen a few locations in Chicago in particular that were clearly using the newer, sharper cameras. I think the entirety of DC is crystal-clear too.

I saw it parked on Church street in Tribeca on Monday!

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