This is a major reason for Google street view cars going everywhere, I would guess. Letting people look at street view in google maps is not the reason they hav

This is a major reason for Google street view cars going everywhere, I would guess. Letting people look at street view in google maps is not the reason they have and continue to spend millions (billions?) on creating these detailed maps. Sort of like when Google had a free info phone service for a while to train their voice recognition system. I would not be surprised if street view goes away at some point.