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Old 03-11-2013, 09:01 PM
 
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Saw this on the news. Fellow with a cameraphone setting up a Google hangout while traveling so that those who can't get out have at least some of the experience of travel. Comments?
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Old 03-11-2013, 10:49 PM
 
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Sounds like a nice idea as long as he isn't traveling to China where there are problems with Google websites.
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Old 03-11-2013, 10:55 PM
 
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I saw the google car in the neighborhood about a year ago, this was the best picture I could get of it at the time. However the car seems to be very simple with only a multi-camera-pod coming out of the top of the car. It's not easy to see in the picture, sorry. However the car simply drives on every street of every neighborhood to get the coverage of video that they use. Major populated areas are covered first and then lower populated small cities get covered later. It would be a wonderful job to have driving around in that car however.
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Old 03-12-2013, 03:40 PM
 
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