Google Street View's new camera: the tricycle

by blueven on 2009-10-17 14:19:20

What would it look like to add a rear wheel to a bike and mount a 360-degree street view camera on it? It's Google's new viewfinder: the Street View tricycle.

For the Street View project, Googlers realized that they couldn't capture some of the narrow locations with a standard camera car, so they created this special tricycle to collect images of narrow natural areas, college campuses, and similar places that weren't easy to view by car.