Google Street View
Today Google announced the launch of Street View trike (yes, trike) in Sydney.
Google has realised that many of the world’s most interesting and iconic places aren’t accessible by their Street View car so they’ve come up with a solution: the Google Trike. The Google Trike is “a mechanical masterpiece comprising three bicycle wheels, a Street View camera, and a very athletic cyclist in customised Google apparel.”
It was launched in Taronga Zoo, Sydney which is apt considering many Sydneysiders probably got lost there when they were a kid!
Google is now asking for suggestions of where the Trike should travel to next whilst in Oz… I think a cycle to the top of Uluru would be a suitable challenge for Google’s “athletic cyclists”! But if you have more achievable ideas (maybe the Bondi to Bronte walk?), Google would love to hear them!
How about America’s top secret ‘Joint defence Space Research Facility’ at Pine Gap just outside of Alice Springs. That would be a great start but I bet that guy doesn’t have the legs on him.