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Take a virtual lap of the Lotus test track on Google street view

For car buffs one of the more interesting aspects of Google Maps has been checking out the high resolution satellite imagery of race tracks and manufacturer test tracks around the world. Aside from the engineers who work at those facilities and selected outsiders like the media, the proving grounds are typically tightly guarded places and regular people can't just wander in. Ever since Google augmented maps with the street view function several years ago, users have have been exploring and finding all kinds of neat places they've never ... Read more →

Woodward 2009: Google watching the watchers! Sam Abuelsamid

As we strolled down Woodward Ave. this morning shooting all the the wild and wacky machinery idling along, we spotted a little gray Chevy Cobalt on the opposite side of the street. While everyone ...

Google Street View switching to trikes for roads less traveled Jeremy Korzeniewski

Google has already faced plenty of issues with its Street View technology, not the least of which has been angry Japanese citizens and invasion of privacy lawsuits from Americans whose driveways were ...

REPORT: Google forced to re-shoot all of Japan's StreetView images [w/POLL] John Neff

We happen to love Google StreetView for the fun things that can be found using the free service. Ugly Buicks, Porsches testing in Colorado and even a rare split-window Corvette barn find are just a ...

Google StreetView inspires copycat Smart ForTwo police patrol in UK Jonathon Ramsey

After revolutionizing search, advertising, and e-mail, Google is changing the way police in Greater Manchester keep track of motorists: Filming them a la StreetView. After having seen Google's ...

Google StreetView uncovers split-window Corvette "barn find" 9 months ago on Autoblog

This is no way to treat a 1963 Corvette split-window coupe. Found in Washington by one of Google StreetView's drones, there's actually no barn to this barn find, just a car left sitting in the gray mist that folks in the Pacific Northwest call "weather." This Corvette had a 12-year shelf life, and ...

Smile! That Cobalt could be a Google StreetView Camera Car 2 years ago on Autoblog

As long as everybody is on to them, Google is apparently set to step out of their surveillance vans and greet the world in a fleet of shiny new Cobalts. A Gizmodo reader happened to spot a StreetView camera van finishing a round of picture taking duty and followed it back to Google's Mountain View, ...






Autoblog Podcast #156: Paukert comes back for more! 

Chris, Dan, and Editor Paukert chat and give each other grief. Merriment ensues.

 
 

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