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Google Street View drivers have a job to do. They're the Internet's eyes. But will they really flick you off in traffic? This photo being passed around the Internet indicates they will, but we think it's a Photoshop. More »
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It's not unusual to have neighborly disputes over what goes down on the other side of the fence, but one San Diego neighborhood has noticed an increasing eyesore ever since a Google Street View car started parking down the street. More »
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A Google Maps Street View car taking photos of roving artisanal grilled cheese-making wagons in Williamsburg made an unscheduled break in Crown Heights after their Subaru Impreza broke down on Kingston and East New York. Did you hear that — they're making grilled cheese. In the streets! Someone should do a story on that. Hat tip to my mishpacha, Doren! More »
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A team of gutsy Google Street View drivers tackled Alaska's daunting Dalton Highway, capturing images through the Arctic Circle to the Arctic Ocean. We animated the trip so you can enjoy it without becoming an ice road trucker. More »
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At a pace of 90 hours and 104,619 clicks, it turns out driving across the country in real life is faster than making a coast-to-coast click trip on Google Street View. More »
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A resident of Derbyshire, England was out one camper and the local police were out of leads. Until the victim noticed a peculiar sight on Google Street View: a dude in an SUV stealing his camper. More »
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Indie rock group Arcade Fire's teamed up with Google to incorporate Street View into a strange new music video that involves bombing your childhood street with birds. It's one of the more interesting and creepy uses of HTML5 to date. More »
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When Google Street View was launched, it was mind-blowing technology, but scanning large distances is often tiresome. In response, Microsoft Research has debuted Street Slide, which stitches the panoramic images together to make one big, amazing, interactive world. More »
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Google Street View's cameras indicate Top Gear's tame racer The Stig has left the chilly shore of Loch Ness for the more exciting confines of LEGOLAND UK. Why did they blur the camel's hump? More »
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Google put a camera car into last years Woodward Dream Cruise and now the day's images are mixed in with the regular Street View scenery along Detroit's main drag. See if you can find the guy flipping off the camera. More »
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"Hello, 911? This weird-ass Chevy Cobalt is following me. I don't know who it is, but the dude keeps pulling alongside and asking if he can 'view' my 'street.' Is that slang for something dirty? Am I being assaulted?" More »
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This car is parked on the street in Honolulu. It can apparently be found at this location on a regular basis. So, to review: Guy lives in Hawaii and drives his 246 GT often. We want his life. More »
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Google Street View captured this truck — and its, er, pointed graphics — on the E65 motorway in the Czech Republic. Let's get this straight: Blurred-out serial numbers but intact NSFW? What? [Google Maps] More »
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When Google's Street View camera's found The Stig at Loch Ness we learned nothing of the identity of Top Gear's tame racing driver. Nevertheless, Google decided to blur the image of a fully covered man. (H/T to Matt!) [Google] More »
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Is the man in the back of this pickup passed out drunk or just relaxing while drinking? Either way, he forgot to wave at the Google Street View camera car as it drove past. More »
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Never seeing someone list a used car with pics taken from Google Street View, we couldn't trust them. So when we saw this ad listing a 1978 Lincoln with Street View pics we had to call the seller. More »
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This Google Street View image of a transient crapping on a D.C. sidewalk isn't funny. It's fundamentally sad. It seems the only one who notices or cares is the cat, which, for some reason, was blurred out. [FrozenTropics via dcist] More »
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Sure, you won't get the visceral sensation of tossing a Lotus Exige into a corner, but "driving" the Lotus test track in Hethel, UK on Google Street View is better than nothing. Plenty of fun machinery on the track, too. More »
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In what's perhaps the most cogent critique yet of Google's seen-by-some-as-privacy-invading Street View program, a bird crapped right on a surveillance vehicle's panoramic camera lens. Touche! More »
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A moment on Google Street View showing a Dutch fire truck driving away after allegedly knocking down a little old lady on her bike hit the internet yesterday, today Google's completely erased the moment. Too bad we kept the pictures. More »
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A Google Street View car on assignment in the Netherlands captured what looks like a fire truck bowling over a little old lady and driving away. Luckily, the Googlers stopped to help. Hey guys... where's the fire? More »
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This Ontario van fire caught by a Google Street View car is so perplexing to us it's totally being added to our list of the ten most confusing Google Street View accidents. What the hell do you think happened? [Gizmodo] More »
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In honor of Crash Week, we're taking a look back at some of the stranger wrecks captured by the Google Street View team. Click below to see ten confusing Google Street View accidents. More »
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Since commie Parisians have closed many streets to cars, Google is using tricycles to map popular tourist destinations for Street View. Each trike hauls a generator and a pole with nine cameras on top. Yes, they look really weird. [GlobeandMail] More »
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If you're out cruising in Spain with the company Ford Transit Connect, try not to get busted by the Google Street View car when soliciting a lady-of-the-night wearing a barely-there thong. We're gonna call this NSFW. More »
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After a recent spate of burglaries, residents of Broughton, a village in Buckinghamshire, UK, formed a human chain around, and hurling insults at, a Google Street View car, refusing to allow it inside the hamlet. More »
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It was bound to happen and we got to say, it's pretty to look at: load Street View at a scenic location, take a screen-shot at every click, then run 'em through an image editor. More »
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Google Street View has recently taken us to some pretty cool locales, but none gets our motors running quite like the little camera car running the Laguna Seca circuit with some ALMS cars. More »
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Google Street View camera trucks have photographed something even better than the white Stig: a custom Aston Martin built for the Sultan of Brunei. Here is the story of how we found it. More »
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You may have missed Google Street View's recent launch in the UK. Seems some folks aren't pleased finding themselves captured in compromising situations on camera so they've demanded Google strip their images from the system. More »
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This Google Street View car bogged down in the sticky Aussie mud was luckily saved by a winch-equipped drive-by good Samaritan. More »
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Google Street View captures the strangest things — like this line-up of DeLoreans outside of the DMC Headquarters in Humble, Texas. Seriously, it looks like a mad scientist convention. (Hat tip to Ben!) [Google] More »
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Google Street View traveled into the future to a post-apocalyptic, dystopian Australia to catch Mad Max and his Pursuit Special V8 Interceptor at the Silverton Hotel in New South Wales, Australia. More »
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Now that Google Street View is trickling down the European highway system, it’s time to go on the prowl for fancy cars. More »
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Bambi was seemingly minding his own business when Google's Street View camera car attacked him. Google's blacking-out the pictures from their servers, but not before we snagged the not-so-unexpected result of their not-so-epic battle below. More »
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What do you do if you're high altitude testing and you see one of Google's Streetview cars coming? "Hans, run for the tarps!" More »
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If we've learned anything from Google Street View, it's that something is always going on in this crazy country of ours. Whether it's flashers, crashes or shootings, the roving cameras tell us that not everything interesting happens indoors. This is especially true for the automotive enthusiast that lacks a garage, like this fellow here. More »
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The wacky and crazy Google Street View vehicles that manage to capture all of the perfect moments have gotten themselves banned from a United States city, again (kind of). The town of North Oaks, a northeast community and suburb of Minneapolis has chased the Google cars away. They were able to do so because the roads in this community are owned by the residents. The residents reportedly enforce a strict "trespassing ordinance," and per a letter sent to Google earlier this year, the search engine giant removed the pictures and banished the vehicles from ever returning. More »
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