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Back in the day, being able to say, "Hey it's that Eyewitness News van!" after a run-in with the news vehicle was enough fodder to get through cocktail parties for the month to follow. Nowadays that sort of excitement is reserved for spotting the Google Street View vehicle, currently at the tail end of a month where it is traversing the five boroughs in order to update the nerd's eye view of New York on Google Maps. Street View is so popular that it's even spawned a website dedicated to capturing and sharing some of the more unusual images caught by the Google vehicle. While some of those pictures include being able to detect New Yorkers at specific spots around town, a concern for the local ACLU, Google spokeswoman Elaine Filadelfo told the Times, "The spirit of Google Maps is not to tie in a specific person to a specific place." We passed along a Street View sighting by Nylon last month; the Times mentions the car's appearance on Jeremiah's Vanishing New York. While Google keeps many details of the car on the DL, the driver did tell one New Yorker that his next stop was Dubai.
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Since when is this news worth commenting on? I can't even count the number of times I've seen the Google car - yes, including this past week. I've seen it here so often, I feel like it's always driving around NYC.
Seriously, it's no big deal. If people get excited about seeing the Google car, they must have really boring lives.
The Google camera car caught a woman in Spain at a very inopportune moment.
I have never seen a Google car, and I wish I knew when it's going down my block, because how cool is that to be in visible in the google map!!
If you think this is pathetic, well, I don't. And it's MY life, isn't it??
Of course I would have to think about something funny to do for the camera.
where can I find out when and where the google car goes????
I fully expect a spike in asthma in my neighborhood due to that insidious Google car.
Last I checked, you don't have an expectation of privacy on a public street.
Last I checked, you don't have an expectation of privacy on a public street.
I think we should be informed of the whereabouts of the Google Car and give that information to the streakers rather than the leakers.
if you see something, say something
Where is Gawker when you need it?
They should reports sightings of the Google truck the same way they report sighting of any celebrities...don't you think?
If this city had any goddamn heart left, that invasive piece of shit would be upside down and on fire.