Nice!
Nice to see they have all the major(ish) cities in the UK covered, except the sodding CAPITAL of Wales... WTF Google, get it sorted!
We're tipping our hats today to vigilant Reg readers, who have so far contributed 100 sightings of Google's Orwellian Street View spycar fleet as it goes about its masters' dark business on the highways and byways of Blighty and beyond. For those of you not up to speed on this exciting operation, we asked you to send in snaps …
And what about the first prosecution for someone driving without due care and attention because they've been snapped by Google snapping Google with their mobile while driving?
Big Brother watching you watching Big Brother watching you watching Big Brother [lather, rinse, repeat]
Nice work. Can't help but notice one of the Dundee sightings is in the vicinity of the main city centre telephone exchange. Anyone else fancy hanging round a bomb-proof service infrastructure building, 500 yards from the regional Police HQ, with a giant black camera on a stalk and see how long they get away with it?
but then - it was pissing with rain so the googlehearse wasn't taking pictures either, awe bless - the black car with a black tripod carrying a black camera that was wrapped up in black tarpaulin... Hiding under the circular as it headed northwards onto the M56 towards Burnley at the junction of M60/M62/M56 north of Manchester on Friday JUST after noon circa 12:30.
How come not 1 sighting along the south coast? Not as though no one lives there with the likes of Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth etc...
Maybe Google thought they'd better get the North done first in the summer so when it's all flooded out, they can move to the dry warmer south!!!
One of the York shots looks like it was taken outside the Tesco at Clifton Moor - I'd hazard a guess that roughly 30 seconds after the photo was taken, the car was stripped down to it's subframe, propped up on bricks and any vaguely valuable bits flogged in the nearby pub by the local ne'er-do-wells ...
By my parents driving down their street, gone before they found the camera, I live 2 streets away and they didnt consider phoning me to let me know it would prob be passing soon.....Grrr Otherwise could have added another car close to Dundee.
Plus the marker on the University of Dundee Campus is exactly where the new school of computing building is. 6 giant stacks of tyres, a mishappen car park and a few other comments I've heard bandied around, personally I think their new building ain't too bad, though haven't been inside despite being alumni (too busy slumming in retail work :( )
( www.computing.dundee.ac.uk if you want to see the building for yourselves )
oh dear thats me bolloxed then... you'll all get to see me peering out of the window at work then, following Gcar down the road (after I caught up with it..) and then parking up and setting my trap at the end of the dead end street while I got the cam out.... No I wasn't snap driving...
Anyway any of you snap drivers out there are sure to be ok, Fortunatly the plods cant prove your engine / handbrake state from a single still!
With a handwritten log on the front seat comprising columns headed:
Date | Time | Rain | Miles | Comments | Hours
Tis difficult to read the blue pen given my camera-phone quality, but definitely 160 miles on Tues 9th Sept, and 107 on Fri 12th. 7am starts. Up to 10-hour days.
Saw one of the black Opels (yes, the cars *look* like Astras, but they're Opel branded) coming off the A64 south of York this morning. Same car was seen, shortly afterwards, wedged in the traffic on Tadcaster Road heading out of town. Ironically enough, it was in front of a drain-cleaning lorry belonging to a company called 'Search' :-)
No photos, unfortunately, as I was too busy being stuck in traffic myself.