I saw the Google StreetView car today

vermooten
vermooten Posts: 2,697
edited July 2008 in The bottom bracket
On Oxford Road in Manchester... I was so shocked I forgot to do a moonie at it.
You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

Manchester Wheelers

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Oxford Road in July? It must have been quiet, it missed all the good looking student girls
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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    You should have filmed it and posted the film on the internet.
    This post contains traces of nuts.
  • robbarker
    robbarker Posts: 1,367
    dondare wrote:
    You should have filmed it and posted the film on the internet.

    :-)
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Saw the same on in Bristol thnis morning at about 9:45am, did have it on camera but as I was at a set of lights and it passed in front of me the footage was very short. I did however manage to get the car to stop long enough to pose for a pic :lol:

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    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • SteK
    SteK Posts: 148
    Saw one documenting some sarnies from the Tesco Express down the road from me in Leeds the other day

    :wink:
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    Why are you getting excited about seeing a car? On the road? I see hundreds every day and I don't scream and shout :lol:
  • gavintc
    gavintc Posts: 3,009
    Yeah, well it is not every day that your actions will be recorded for everyone to see when google streets comes live to UK.
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    I refuse to Google the term streetview car to find out WTF this thread is about.

    Therefore I will remain in ignorance : which is the way I like it. :D
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  • SteK
    SteK Posts: 148
    I'd be more interested in seeing the 'bangbus'.

    I strongly recommend, especially if you're at work, you don't google that term either....
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    pedylan wrote:
    I refuse to Google the term streetview car to find out WTF this thread is about.

    Therefore I will remain in ignorance : which is the way I like it. :D
    So unlike a Yorkshireman...
    :wink:
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    My mate spotted one in Cov last week.

    The Register are using Google Maps to track them here :lol: :

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/15 ... pycar_map/
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    vermooten wrote:
    pedylan wrote:
    I refuse to Google the term streetview car to find out WTF this thread is about.

    Therefore I will remain in ignorance : which is the way I like it. :D
    So unlike a Yorkshireman...
    :wink:

    Yorkshire is only my location. I'm a traveling missionary from Scotland. :):)
    Where the neon madmen climb
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    I was brought up in Leeds!
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    The local paper in Bristol has read this thread and wants my pic in the paper tomorrow :D
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • synchronicity
    synchronicity Posts: 1,415
    IMHO This kind of thing is silly. It's like the latest generation demands this kind of 'sevice', and then complain later that they're bored out of their minds...

    I don't get the point really. If you want to see a street, get off your arse and go there in person. Or has 1st person travel now become an outmoded concept?
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  • windbreaker
    windbreaker Posts: 91
    I now realise I saw it in Musselburgh earlier this week. I couldn't work out what it was.
  • azzerb
    azzerb Posts: 208
    Not tempted to chase after it so that for the whole street at a certain angle all there would be is a cyclist on the road at each point? :D
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  • Adieu
    Adieu Posts: 83
    I saw it in Birmingham City Centre.

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