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I think there is a different reason for charging for StreetView. The need to make their money back and quick. Self driving cars will have cameras that will give
by snarf21 8y ago
I think there is a different reason for charging for StreetView. The need to make their money back and quick. Self driving cars will have cameras that will give reasonable results for a lot of use cases (maybe not 360 but who cares). It is also a potential combo monetization strategy for the autonomous vendor.
- CodeWriter23 8y agoThe standard license prohibits use in autonomous vehicles. Para 2.e https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html
- matwood 8y agoI think the comment you replied to was saying that StreetView will soon be commodotized, so they need to make the money back now.
- stirlo 8y agoThe issue isn't what google allows/prohibits, its that any new autonomous vehicle company could quickly amass a similar data set to street view and nullify googles 10 plus year investment driving non autonomous cars around to capture street view images.
- bob_theslob646 8y agoIt's not as simple as capturing the imagery. The backend processing for Google maps is astonishing. It will take years to get to the smoothness that is Google Streetview.