You Can Now Explore the Large Hadron Collider on Street View

You Can Now Explore the Large Hadron Collider on Street View

Google Street View is a great way to explore parts of the world you’ve never visited. And thanks to Google’s European team, it’s now one of the easiest ways to explore a facility you’re not exactly allowed to just stroll through whenever you want. Google’s panoramic cameras were given access to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, letting anyone poke around the gigantic machinery and the facility’s endless network of tunnels.

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Google Street View Vehicle Crashes Into Multiple Vehicles In Indonesia

Google Street View Vehicle Crashes Into Multiple Vehicles In Indonesia

It’s been quite the interesting year for Google Street View drivers as just this past summer, one was pulled over by police in Japan while another was detained by Thai villagers thinking the driver was spying on them. Now, we’re hearing reports a Google Street View vehicle was not only involved in a failed hit-and-run, but as a result of their driving, they rammed into two busses and a truck. (more…)

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    Google Street View Driver Rams 2 Buses, 1 Truck in Failed Hit-and-Run

    Google Street View Driver Rams 2 Buses, 1 Truck in Failed Hit-and-Run

    It’s not a good year to be a Google Street View driver—or rather, in this case, to be anywhere in the vicinity of one. In Bogor, Indonesia, one ill-fated Google Street View car got itself into a bit of trouble when the driver’s failed attempt at a hit-and-run involved him ramming into two large public busses and a truck. Because third crash is a charm.

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    Google Street View Driver Detained By Thai Villagers

    Google Street View Driver Detained By Thai Villagers

     

    We’ve heard of Google Street View drivers getting into trouble with the local authorities in the past, but one driver recently got into a little bit more trouble than simply being pulled over by the police in Japan. Instead, the driver was detained by a mob of Thai villagers as the locals believed the vehicle was doing some secret reconnaissance of the area. (more…)

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    A Gang of Thai Villagers Tried to Arrest a Google Street View Driver

    A Gang of Thai Villagers Tried to Arrest a Google Street View Driver

    Google Street View drivers haven’t exactly had the best rep recently, what with that whole collecting-private-Wi-Fi-data debacle and their general propensity for photographing naked women, defecators, murders, and mid-coital couples, just to name a few. And now, one almost got arrested by a group Thai villagers.

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    Google Street View’s Greatest, Weirdest Hits

    Google Street View's Greatest, Weirdest Hits

    Google Street View has something of a history for catching us in our more—uh, delicate states. And our more defecatory states. And our more dead states. While the latter is mostly just depressing, the rest are almost always delightful. And luckily for us, Captain-Obviouss has kindly prompted his fellow Redditors to compile "the most WTF things" that Google’s version of Earth has to offer. Here are our favorites so far.

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    Google Street View Lets You Follow The 2013 Tour de France

    It seems that with Google Street View, you do not need to leave the comfort of your own home in order to pay a visit to faraway dream places, such as what we talked about at the end of last […]

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    This Is How Japan Trolls Google Street View

    This Is How Japan Trolls Google Street View

    Google Street View trolling is not new. People around the world love pulling hijinks when they see the Google Street View apparatus rolling down the street. Folks in Japan did some truly epic trolling.

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    Burj Kahlifa on Street View: The World’s Tallest Building, Inside Out

    The beauty of Google Street View is it can take you to places you might never otherwise see, and now it includes the crazy panoramic view from the top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.

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    Google Street View Car Captures Google Street View Bike Captures Google Street View Car

    Google Street View Car Captures Google Street View Bike Captures Google Street View Car

    "Oh, um… hey, Google Maps Car."

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