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- davidsmero, on 10/11/2007, -24/+243To all the ***** bitching about invasion of privacy...It's a damn public street. Who cares if it takes a picture of your house and people can see it. Many people pass your house daily, its called a public road! I could do that if I wanted to. Bitch about something else.
All done ranting and prepared for digg down. - writh3n, on 10/11/2007, -15/+154Google Cobalt is watching you masturbate,
- ronin691, on 10/11/2007, -16/+120Why won't Google open up this task to the "crowd". If they would publish a DIY build kit, we could all have one of the cameras on our cars and take pictures. At the rate they are going now it'll take years to photo map the entire country.
- pr1me4, on 10/11/2007, -1/+83wish i could go on a road trip funded by google.
- STARTSOMETHING, on 10/11/2007, -2/+78will work for bandwidth
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+82Great, now i'll be watching everywhere I go for Chevy Cobalts
- davidsmero, on 10/11/2007, -3/+62I will do it for a free Google t-shirt. Or maybe a few pens.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+54I wonder if they'll run the images through a 3D rendering give everything some shape, take it beyond the 360 views. That would be awesome
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+48Yeah, now I'm going to grab my balls every time I see one of those cars, in hopes of being 'that guy'.
- TKn00b, on 10/11/2007, -1/+42It probably has to do with control. They want uniformity among all of their streetview photos. We can't have people strapping their 1.3 megapixel camera phones to their antenna and then submitting it to google.
I would do it for a google t-shirt, however. - Otto, on 10/11/2007, -6/+48Why does everybody keep saying that this is big brotherish or an invasion of privacy or what have you? They're on PUBLIC ROADS. If you're doing something you don't want somebody taking pictures of, don't do it where you're visible from the freakin' road, moron!
- insomniac8400, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30I think the camera is going to jump out at you before you even notice the car underneath it is a cobalt.
- smeagel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Because it's stupid. Street view is not useful to the government at all, and it's not persistent surveillance. Any data being collected here, for government purposes, is already available from satellites. This is purely a pleasantry for people like me who live in big cities (NYC) and think, "I know that shop is in this 10 block radius, but I can't remember the name or where, man I don't want to walk miles up and down the grid trying to find it." I've already used streetview multiple times to find places where I'd been before but couldn't remember exactly, it's very handy, and of virtually no use to the government. So stop crying and take your tin foil hat off.
- skellener, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30I think they are going about it all wrong. Don't try and hide the cars when they do it. Paint them bright colors and put a big logo across the side that says "Smile, You're on Google!!". I mean, rather than been sneaky about it, let people know you are there! I would rather see people in the pictures smiling and waving to the camera then ignoring it. I mean, you might as well make it fun.
- TheThirdRider, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25why would they need to? if you've seen one corn field you've seen them all. ;)
- DenTPuzz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Digg users hate questions
- dc2008, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20I'm going to go and press my ass against my window, and just wait for goobalt to drive by.
- davidsmero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Do you even read what you type? It makes no sense!
- PDelahanty, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18I'd do it for free...and I'd have all my friends stand along the street. Possibly Photoshop porn into the window of my nemesis's condo too. ...which is exactly why they won't let just anyone do it.
- Failuretothrive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18I saw the VW Bug in Baltimore.
- maci01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Next will be Google House™, taking pictures of inside your house, while you sleep.
- vandy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11That would lack standardization, angles, lighting and not to mention how people would compose the shot with themselves in it. Google should buy a drone, and fly that guy around. Buuuut, if they were looking for drivers, I would totally do that as a summer job.
- swiftekho, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Dude, I am going to wave to every gray Cobalt that I drive by now.
- AmusedToDeath, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Who gives a ***** if Ron and all the other Potter ***** go teats up?
P.S. - Harry Potter books suck. - underthelinux, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12full of Nazi's what?
- insomniac8400, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Then maybe all map software should also exclude the midwest? Would you like that?
- dictum, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I'm taking the more reasonable approach and carrying around a giant "HI MOM" sign for the next couple of months.
- Casedot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9don't worry, no one is safe from the all-seeing eye of Google.
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9you don't need Google to take pics of your street and people, from what i hear your gov does it just fine.
PLUS more importantly, i think it is illegal for Google to do it in the UK. - ruineraz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9They could do the same thing mobile phone companies do... rent space on city buses and put their equipment on them. Mobile phone companies have been putting their system's performance equipment on city buses for years
- iomegaboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8You win the "That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a month." contest.
- timusca, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9But then there wouldn't be photos of people sneaking into and out of strip clubs and what not.
- inio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7One of the things that Google's founders talked about doing, long ago, was putting cameras like this on ever UPS or FedEx truck. they go everywhere, all the time.
- mattsonster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8good news. 30 CCCC is fairly enough i think. can't wait for them to launch this service in other major cities of the world (outside the US). i.e. London, Saint-Petersburg...
- surfing, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7That would be fun as long as I didn't have to drive the Cobalt
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7He was talking about blog spam?
- colto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Oh that's genius!
- vandy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6It'd be like a new form of AdSense. We sign up for our local region, we carry a few local sponsor magnetic badges to put on our cars as well as the 360 degree camera to throw up on top. In return, we get paid for mileage and/or gas?
- aluminumpork, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6You mean Google knows Minnesota exists!?!? I didn't even think they knew we had computers.
- davidsmero, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Really? I live in Baltimore and have heard of it. Where did you see it at?
- STARTSOMETHING, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Oh yeah i saw a focus in harrisburg
- mdkoch84, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9nope, we're doing it to ourselves..and we love it!
- voyvf, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6haven't read the good book o' LUG, have you?
"and the geek shall inherit the earth" - kalleanka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5No, they have developed techniques for self steering cars.
Heck, they even have their free food made by robots too. - rspeed, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6For it to be "Big Brother" would require both spacial AND temporal data.
- LifeVirusZERO, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Charles st. is scary
- blaaguuu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4DIGG FIGHT!!!!!
- Cornedbeef, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Today New York City, tomorrow the world.
- cbreaker, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4... and the fact that buses are large, so unless we want a birds' eye view of the road, a smaller vehicle makes more sense.
- mookiemookie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4That's the most nonsensical jumble of words ever. Put down the liquor bottle and step away from the keyboard.
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