An Opportunity Missed

[rejectomorph]

I just saw the Google camera car go by my house, and I wasn't out in the front yard. I was lying on the couch, and saw only the top part of it with the strange apparatus sticking up, and didn't know what it was. I sat up and a minute later it came back down the street (the street is a short cul-de-sac.) I still didn't get a good look at the odd vehicle, as it was going pretty fast, and my bushes blocked most of my view, but I went to the window and saw it turn left at the corner.

Only a few minutes later did it occur to me that it might have been the Google car. The direction it went is a maze of dead end streets, so I knew it would have to come back along the road at the corner, which is the only way out. I went out front and looked down the block, and just a few seconds later I saw the car go by. It was one of the Suburus with the green doors.

It's too bad I wasn't in the yard when it first went by, and didn't get out soon enough to walk down to the corner when it came back. I've always wanted a Google Street View picture of me with my face all blurred to use for an icon. I'll keep an eye on Google Maps for the next few days to see if they upload new views of the neighborhood. If I'm lucky, there could be a very distant view of me standing in the street watching the car go by down at the corner. That shot might get discarded, though, as they already had the view up the block they'd taken on their first pass.

I'm really disappointed that I wasn't out there when it first came up the block, though. I might never see a Google camera car again.

Comments

[paul.livejournal.com]

Over here I've seen it a few times and my car is on street view. It often takes a year or so for the images to be uploaded though.

[rejectomorph]

I guess I'll have to be patient. I've never seen the Google car before. They probably don't send it to this town very often, since the place changes so slowly. About the only things different on my block in the new photos will be the cars parked along the street and the fact that my wheelie bins won't be sitting out at the street.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

Oh, shucks! You could've posted the link to the photo for us to marvel at. :)

[rejectomorph]

I know. It's just so frustrating to have missed being semi-immortalized in Street View! So close!