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New Google Street View Tricycles!

How do the Google Street View mapping cars enter small streets and corners? Google Street View is now using Tricycles (trikes) to map where no Google car has gone before….

You have seen these Google Street view cars before, with a tall central beam and a 360 degrees camera on top strolling across major cities. See the video of this Google Street View car in the UK.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eughtd0fNE8

Now people are spotting Google Street View Trikes or tricycles recording snapshots where previously Google cars were unable to enter, in an effort to get a more comprehensive street view and better map coverage. Here is what they look like

google street view tricycle

Catch the Google trike cycling along in Rome in this video

Is that a GPS device in front of the Google guy? Anyway did you know that you can remove your face, house, car from Google Street View.