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Google Street View camera car tagged with GPS sensor, stalked around Berlin

CrunchGear Feb 06 10

The story here is that someone secretly affixed a GPS tracker on a Google Street View camera car and you can follow the car's progress using Google Maps while it's photographing the streets of Berlin. Sort of ironic, isn't? But either the car seems to be stopped or Google caught wind of the stalkers because I haven't seen any progress the last few minutes. Or maybe they're eating. Either way, click through for the live Google Map. Full story...

Tagged: camera car, few minutes, Gadgets, google, google map, google maps, google street view, gps tracker,

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