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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 →

Review: Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation on Android 2.0 Sam Abuelsamid

It's no secret that we've been openly critical of the prices charged by automakers for built-in GPS navigation systems. Frankly, paying $2,000 or more for an in-dash system when you can buy ...

Circuit Logic: Mazda captures Laguna Seca on Google Street View Noah Joseph

Looking for a corkscrew? If it's a bottle of wine you're looking to open, we're afraid we can't help you there, pal. But if you want to take an interactive look at one of America's best race tracks, ...

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 phone designers plot for "The End of Driving" with autonomobile Jonathon Ramsey

In Possible Future Scenario #317-B, San Francisco industrial design firm Mike and Maaike presents the atnmbl (get it? – "autonomobile"). Less a car than an autonomous, seven-person mobile ...

Google Street View switching to trikes for roads less traveled 7 months ago on Autoblog

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 mistaken for a roads. Beyond these unforeseen issues, there's also the rather obvious problem of ...

REPORT: Google forced to re-shoot all of Japan's StreetView images [w/POLL] 7 months ago on Autoblog

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 few of the many, many things uncovered by Google's free service, which snaps 360-degree images at eye ...

Google StreetView inspires copycat Smart ForTwo police patrol in UK 8 months ago on Autoblog

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 StreetView car doing its Cylon sweep of everything, everywhere, the local authorities were apparently ...

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 ...

Jeff Jarvis suggests Detroit should build a beta Googlemobile 10 months ago on Autoblog

Jeff Jarvis may be a really smart guy on a lot of subjects, but the auto industry apparently isn't one of them. In an excerpt from his new book. What Would Google Do?, Jarvis suggests that Detroit follow the Google model, releasing cars in beta and then letting users contribute to design and ...

They're Watching: Google StreetView catches Porsches testing in Colorado 11 months ago on Autoblog

There's no hiding these days from Big Brother. The nutcases in the tin-foil hats would tell you there never was, but now even automakers have to watch out. Development teams out testing prototypes on public roads used to have to watch out for professional spy photographers, but with the advent ...

Google Android open-source OS could come to cars 1 year ago on Autoblog

It's no secret that our cars are quickly becoming extensions of our data-crazed lives. Everywhere we go, we surround ourselves with electronics meant to make our lives more convenient. Plus, most of these gadgets are just plain cool. Microsoft and Ford started something with the SYNC system and ...

Google Maps Street-View features upgraded visuals for directions 1 year ago on Autoblog

Thanks to inventions like GPS Navigation and online directions, it's getting harder to get lost by the day. Google Maps has been a big hit for folks trying to navigate to new destinations, and the free service just got cooler with the integration of Street-View into driving directions. Now when you ...

BMW gets in bed with Google Maps for MyInfo 1 year ago on Autoblog

Promising to make automotive navigation systems "easier, faster, and more convenient to use," BMW is (finally) rolling out its Google-partnered "Myinfo" service in North America (Europeans received BMW's similar "ConnectedDrive" late last year). With a click of a mouse from the Google Maps web site ...

BMW and Google help European drivers navigate better, read Autoblog 2 years ago on Autoblog

Those of you rolling in any new BMW model equipped with sat nav and Bluetooth connectability, save the Z4 and X3, can now integrate Google's useful, albeit sometimes erroneous, route plotting into your Bimmer. The joint effort between ze Germans and the search overlords allow users to log onto ...

New Mercedes nav lets Google and Yahoo show the way 2 years ago on Autoblog

Mercedes is introducing a feature called Search and Send to that will allow you to send Google and Yahoo! driving directions directly to your car's navigation system. How it works: you get driving directions from either source, and then hit a button labeled Send to Car. If you have a Tele-Aid ...

Google's Street View Car: Take a look at the vehicle that's looking at you! 2 years ago on Autoblog

While it was much more fun to think of the little hover-droid flying around New York City waiting to snap pictures for you of the surrounding city-scape, the reality is a bit less interesting, although more realistic. The vehicle you see in the picture above is one of Immersive Media's camera ...

Googlebots to hit the road with Stanford sensing technology 2 years ago on Autoblog

Google began the latest online mapping craze a couple of years ago when it kicked old school stalwart Mapquest to the curb. Since then Microsoft and Yahoo have jumped into the fray and the gang from Redmond has made a lot of progress with 3-D visualizations of its maps. Google has added features to ...

VW busted for scamming Google search, gets off easy 2 years ago on Autoblog

Both Volkswagen and Google have responded to criticism that the automaker's web pages were in violation of Google's quality guidelines. The uproar centers around hidden keywords in flash-based pages. Rather than include the keywords in the meta tag of the HTML page, which is where information about ...

Google to bring GPS-based advertising to a vehicle near you 3 years ago on Autoblog

So targeted, it's freaky. Google, everybody's favorite search engine, and Google-owned dMarc Broadcasting, plan to use GPS to hook up Google AdWords customers with GPS-based in-car advertising. What does this mean, exactly? As Eric Schmidt, Google CEO described it, if he needs a ...

Corporations offering incentives for employees to drive hybrids 3 years ago on Autoblog

Google, Timberland and Bank of America are just a few of the companies out there rewarding their employees for going green. The companies offer cash back to employees who buy hybrid vehicles, though certain conditions apply. Bank of America, whose headquarters is in North Carolina, ...

Mazda partners with Google Earth for CX-7 sweepstakes 3 years ago on Autoblog

Back in January, we were among the first to leak that Mazda was piggybacking on General Motors' "Google Pontiac" campaign to clandestinely swipe some of the latter's advertising buying power. Buying Pontiac AdWords was a brilliantly cost-effective move, though critics derided the ...






Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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