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Streetview takes my picture
- pg 17y agoAt first I thought, what an amazing coincidence. But actually the odds of this happening are reasonably high. I can't quite tell who I'm talking to without seeing their faces. From the postures it looks like it might be the RethinkDBs. Edit: No, turns out it was the Picwings.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoMy parents are on StreetView. It would be interesting to try to calculate the odds of a given individual being caught.
- socratees 17y agoAssuming you're at work, and you spend 30 minutes of a day where you could be caught on camera, and assuming Google streetview vehicle passes through your road once every year, what is the probability of you getting caught on camera? Also we should take in to factor you don't and streetview vehicle work only from 9-5.
- nikolayav 17y agoSimply put, I counted 6 people reporting this here (I am one). My attempt to estimate how many people read this: X HN daily actives, each looks at Y threads a day (random out of 30 they see), one in Z posts to the thread. Quick check with Alexa gave me something on the order of 2 million for X, that seems really high to me, let's say X=100k (even this seems very generous). Y and Z are pretty tricky, using a gut guess of Y = 5 and Z = 10: 6 * Z / ((Y * X) / 30 ) = (6 * Z * 30) / (X * Y) = 6 * 10 * 30 / (100000 * 5) = 0.0036 = 0.36% 0.36% of the HN audience. Very back-of-the-envelope.
- dabent 17y agoMy Mom is on street view. It was hilarious to see the look on her face when I first showed her.
- whatusername 17y agoSo is my grandmother. We've decided not to show her as it would just stress her out.
- spuz 17y agoYou're the one on the left, right?
- savrajsingh 17y agolook for the shorts.
- dbz 17y agoI've always wondered what the great mastermind PG looks like!
- mrduncan 17y agoIf you're really that curious: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/137275735_6ba4ac4e5a.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/137275735_6ba4ac4e5a.jpg
- showerst 17y agoYou too, huh? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=38.906541,-77.047447&daddr=Ward+Ct+NW,+Washington,+DC+20037&hl=en&geocode=%3BCaQRBvdCQj1tFW2qUQIdollo-ylBYYbLt7e3iTH6RK3K3ioJ5w&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=19&sll=38.906225,-77.047693&sspn=0.001847,0.00327&g=Ward+ct.+NW,+Washington,+District+of+Columbia&ie=UTF8&ll=38.906536,-77.047446&spn=0.00081,0.00327&z=19&layer=c&cbll=38.906371,-77.04791&panoid=8bLyBshiOIiRXLuyi0yrLg&cbp=11,34.26,,0,5 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=38.... Almost spooky how identifiably clear mine is. Subway totally owes me a kickback for the free advertising.
- petercooper 17y agoI should be on Street View as one went past while my wife and I were walking along from one of our first visits when she was pregnant. That was at least 10 months ago and the area we were in still isn't on Street View (rural UK). Anyone know how long it takes? :-)
- sailormoon 17y agoI think they do multiple passes, and some passes are rejected - or the car could have been on its way somewhere else. I've seen the cars numerous times and never fail to stare dumbly at them but as far as I know none of those takes were used ..
- omgsean 17y agoThey caught me drinking! (I'm across from the guy with the hat) http://bit.ly/Rz2GB http://bit.ly/Rz2GB
- s3graham 17y agoCan't beat these guys http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rugdeveien+39+bergen&sll=59.913801,10.73882&sspn=0.000449,0.001635&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rugdeveien+39,+5097+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norway&t=h&ll=60.360884,5.369468&spn=0.001211,0.00247&z=19&layer=c&cbll=60.360884,5.369468&panoid=vIlVwLm8kDoxekaRJ0MwdQ&cbp=12,276.08,,0,7.25 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... "Walk" east!
- ryanelkins 17y agoWow. If you go West once and look to the right they appear to be just kicking back reading the paper in some lawn chairs. They then proceed to chase the streetview car down the road as it moves east.
- raheemm 17y agoGreat find! They are indeed!
- ashishbharthi 17y agoWhy they have blurred their faces though? Or they blur all the faces on streetview?
- arohner 17y agoGoogle has a face-blurring algorithm. Amusingly, it catches things like faces on billboards and horses! http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/14/google-blurs-horse-f.html http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/14/google-blurs-horse-...
- elpuri 17y agoNaturally statues get the same treatment. It seems though that his private parts don't need the privacy :) http://bit.ly/csIXot http://bit.ly/csIXot
- moo 17y agoMaybe the front guy forgot to spit in his diving mask.
- zandorg 17y agoFunny the sidebar ad is for iRobot! Making ad dollars off PG?
- paulgb 17y agoI got a robot-related ad also. It's not a coincidence, Google must know that 320 Pioneer way is the HQ of Anybots and show related ads.
- gcb 17y agoyou're now © google.
- javan 17y agoThey took mine too: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2404+Wilshire+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90057&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.460237,70.400391&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2404+Wilshire+Blvd,+Los+Angeles,+California+90057&ll=34.060294,-118.28156&spn=0.010364,0.017188&z=16&layer=c&cbll=34.060377,-118.281505&panoid=X1g7UgoiqfHxO8jTQqrm2Q&cbp=12,318.32,,1,8.65 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
- gbookman 17y agoI never knew people rode bikes in LA, interesting :D
- javan 17y agoIt's mostly flat and the weather's perfect, what more do you need?
- rue 17y agoHills. But you have those too. :)
- KirinDave 17y agoAn environment where capricious and terrible drivers texting surreptitiously in gigantic body crushers are not prolific. LA has a terrible bike culture. I learned to hate biking down there, and it's only now up in SF that I've started repairing that.
- tokenadult 17y agoCalifornians in general drive both better (more safely) and more courteously than drivers in Minnesota, but even with the bad weather here, some Minnesotans bike. I feel much better when my wife is on a designated bike trail than along a roadway that has car traffic.
- smokey_the_bear 17y agoI used to bike a lot in SF. Then I realized that in less than a year I had a roommate shatter an ankle on market street and need surgery, a friend get hit by a bus and had to wear a neckbrace for months, another friend shattered a shoulder and also needed surgery, another got doored and had back problems, and I also got doored, but was fine. Though my bike was messed up. Great bike culture, but not very safe.
- paul9290 17y agoOMG the privacy implications of this will create a huge BUZZ!
- paul9290 17y agocorny I know, but was this not posted by the site's admin for fun? I just got tired of everyone going on and on about BUZZ and privacy.
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- gcheong 17y agoMaybe there's a business opportunity here in vanity StreetView shots?