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Old 08-12-2009, 01:09 PM
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click the link to see why it's definitely related to this section!

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Old 08-12-2009, 01:25 PM
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Thats awesome! I too would say it has some relevance here.
Old 08-12-2009, 01:26 PM
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Wow very cool!
Old 08-12-2009, 01:40 PM
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would be cool if that had done the entire track.............. I wonder who organized this with the teams/track/google??
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Originally Posted by davidfarmer
would be cool if that had done the entire track.............. I wonder who organized this with the teams/track/google??
The magic of video editting?
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Yeah, that's cool!
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did you guys rotate the view to see what was coming AT the camera?
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yep. I backed up as far as they would let you and also tried to go around the track but it would only let me go to the apex of the corner.
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Ahhh

They let the google car drive on the pace lap.

I believe their processing software automatically looks for what it thinks are license plates on vehicles and obscures them as the data is submitted (it's not done at run time). It would mean that they processed the data submitted just like any other city street.

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Thunderhill is there too now:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...,355.07,,1,5.1
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very cool
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That is very cool!
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I bet your insurance companies are interested in this view too.
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It's neat that the camera is so high up - you can see terrain details which aren't at all
obvious from normal driver height.

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Originally Posted by flink
It's neat that the camera is so high up - you can see terrain details which aren't at all
obvious from normal driver height.

Now that's funny!

Here's something you don't see every day at THill . . .

http://gotbluemilk.com/web090814/p/i...es/image1.html

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Old 08-19-2009, 07:48 AM
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seems like all of Laguna Seca is up now... went round the track.. very cool!

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BTW didn't know what their car looked like

Thanks
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Laguna Seca:

Old 08-19-2009, 12:27 PM
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Very cool indeed (the whole track is there for sure now). My first time ever through the corkscrew! You can drag the stick figure in the lower right corner to any part of the track to move the big image to that part of the track (just in case some did not already know that).


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