I saw them driving around Minneapolis in the days leading up to the 35W bridge collapse. It’s still pretty strange if you go back to that period of time in street view, you can go across the bridge, but if you go up on the 4th/University exit, then the bridge is gone.
Last week I also saw a Waymo cam car cruising through the alleys in my neighborhood for some reason.
Yes, it shows up in LA from time to time. It’s gone before I can put on my goat mask and flip it off, so my sentiment never makes it into time immemorial, sigh .
I’ve seen it but it’s never captured me. But 2 people I know were “caught” - my neighbor, washing his car, and another friend, mowing his lawn. A few years ago it came down my street when 2 plumbers’ vans were parked in front of my house, for a hot water heater switch out.
That’s pretty neat to be captured on there. My guys cousin was caught out in front of her house. I wish they didn’t blur out the faces though.
I’ve got the best pics of my mom’s house from there, she lives on the corner of a 4-way so it’s nice that they got the money shot, saved me the hassle! Lol
When my dad first bought his condo in Florida it was pretty cool to travel the neighborhood and check it out from my comfy couch, no humidity necessary!
@chienfou@kittykat9180@Kyeh I’ve installed 2 water heaters in this house over the course of ~29 years (but then, I plumbed the whole house myself - I’m not a professional plumber, but I do know that “shit flows downhill and payday is Friday” ).
@macromeh
Yeah, I’m with you. Over the last 40 years or so I totally replumbed, rewired, and redesigned this house stick by stick. The fact that it’s mine makes me even more inclined to do a good job.
In fact, the building inspector one time commented on how neat my electrical panel was after I’d completed the wiring on the pool house. It has a dedicated feed from the power company (on a separate account) so I could split out the pool equipment from the house box to free up some extra spaces in the 200amp box. The pool house has a small efficiency kitchen, small living room, and a full bathroom with a bedroom upstairs. Water is heated with an electric POU heater from a woot! purchase over 10 years ago (50 amp breaker).
@chienfou I only wish that the PEX plumbing system had all the bugs worked out when we built our house. I did it all in copper pipe - 4 bathrooms on 3 floors, plus kitchen and laundry. It was a big job and the kitchen sink wound up being at the far end of the run from the water heater, so it takes a while for the water to get hot. With PEX, it could have easily had its own dedicated run.
@macromeh
I solved that with a small 115 volt POU water heater under the kitchen sink. It is actually plumbeed to the hvot water line. I have it on a smart plug so I can have it programmed to turn on at the times that we’re most likely to be using hot water already. The water comes out of the faucet hot right off the bat and then the small tank on the POU refills with water so I’m not throwing a bunch of water “down the drain” waiting for the water to heat. At the end of the cycle hot water is what’s going in the POU so it cycles off without heating a bunch of cold water for nothing.
Hmm… I’m not sure I’ve seen where you can find previous years. I’ll have to look for that. I’d love to see my childhood home throughout the years and how it’s changed, always the sentimental one… 🪻
@gwrankin@Kyeh@Lynnerizer
I can date some of my Google Earth views of the house based on which vehicles are parked in my driveway… As well as whether mom’s house is built next door yet.
A few years back (almost certainly pre COVID) I talked to one of the Google Street view drivers at the gas station. He showed me a little bit of stuff, like the mini rack in the passenger seat with IIRC 100tb of storage. It was a neat conversation. I wish I remembered more details. He was in the area to take the car to the Subaru dealership for service, but his mapping assignment was a couple hours away. I think he told me that they would drive an area and meet another driver and trade cars, but I can’t figure out why that makes any sense unless it’s to get those drives back to a data center or get the cars to service. From what I recall though all the data was streamed back and there were techs in his system remotely pretty much continuously.
Haven’t seen it directly, but have seen its shadow many times in street view.
I saw them driving around Minneapolis in the days leading up to the 35W bridge collapse. It’s still pretty strange if you go back to that period of time in street view, you can go across the bridge, but if you go up on the 4th/University exit, then the bridge is gone.
Last week I also saw a Waymo cam car cruising through the alleys in my neighborhood for some reason.
@guyfromhawthorn
Because I didn’t know what the Waymo cam car was…
https://youtube.com/shorts/BCDJOUljJ3o?si=8EyvmLLIy232_nBX
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW9MIRUkZix/?igsh=YWc4MTM5b3JvN3pj
@guyfromhawthorn @Lynnerizer Thanks for the videos. Both were interesting!
Yes, it shows up in LA from time to time. It’s gone before I can put on my goat mask and flip it off, so my sentiment never makes it into time immemorial, sigh .
My inflatable deer, Jack, is on Street View!
@PooltoyWolf Oh, that’s terrific!
@PooltoyWolf Do you bring those in during hunting season? That’s some trophy.
@PooltoyWolf
Oh wow that’s very cool!
I’ve seen it but it’s never captured me. But 2 people I know were “caught” - my neighbor, washing his car, and another friend, mowing his lawn. A few years ago it came down my street when 2 plumbers’ vans were parked in front of my house, for a hot water heater switch out.
@Kyeh
That’s pretty neat to be captured on there. My guys cousin was caught out in front of her house. I wish they didn’t blur out the faces though.
I’ve got the best pics of my mom’s house from there, she lives on the corner of a 4-way so it’s nice that they got the money shot, saved me the hassle! Lol
When my dad first bought his condo in Florida it was pretty cool to travel the neighborhood and check it out from my comfy couch, no humidity necessary!
@Kyeh
I have a plumber coming Wednesday. The water heater is less than 5 years old but the pipes are corroded.
Maybe the google car will come by.
@kittykat9180 @Kyeh
/giphy yikes!
@chienfou @kittykat9180 Yeah, wow!
@chienfou @Kyeh
The WH went out one week before closing on the house. I suspect the seller did a self install.
@chienfou @kittykat9180 It looks like it!
@chienfou @kittykat9180 @Kyeh I’ve installed 2 water heaters in this house over the course of ~29 years (but then, I plumbed the whole house myself
- I’m not a professional plumber, but I do know that “shit flows downhill and payday is Friday” 
).
@macromeh
Yeah, I’m with you. Over the last 40 years or so I totally replumbed, rewired, and redesigned this house stick by stick. The fact that it’s mine makes me even more inclined to do a good job.
In fact, the building inspector one time commented on how neat my electrical panel was after I’d completed the wiring on the pool house. It has a dedicated feed from the power company (on a separate account) so I could split out the pool equipment from the house box to free up some extra spaces in the 200amp box. The pool house has a small efficiency kitchen, small living room, and a full bathroom with a bedroom upstairs. Water is heated with an electric POU heater from a woot! purchase over 10 years ago (50 amp breaker).
@chienfou I only wish that the PEX plumbing system had all the bugs worked out when we built our house. I did it all in copper pipe - 4 bathrooms on 3 floors, plus kitchen and laundry. It was a big job and the kitchen sink wound up being at the far end of the run from the water heater, so it takes a while for the water to get hot. With PEX, it could have easily had its own dedicated run.
@macromeh
I solved that with a small 115 volt POU water heater under the kitchen sink. It is actually plumbeed to the hvot water line. I have it on a smart plug so I can have it programmed to turn on at the times that we’re most likely to be using hot water already. The water comes out of the faucet hot right off the bat and then the small tank on the POU refills with water so I’m not throwing a bunch of water “down the drain” waiting for the water to heat. At the end of the cycle hot water is what’s going in the POU so it cycles off without heating a bunch of cold water for nothing.
I just love Google Earth and I love looking at all the houses from my old neighborhood where I grew up.
As silly as it may sound I’ll travel the roads all over the place on Google Earth! Yeah, too much free time!
@Lynnerizer I explore my own city with it! I like the feature that lets you look at previous years’ views too.
@Kyeh
Hmm…
I’m not sure I’ve seen where you can find previous years. I’ll have to look for that. I’d love to see my childhood home throughout the years and how it’s changed, always the sentimental one… 
🪻
@Lynnerizer It only goes back as far as Google earth has existed - and not every year or every location.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer I didn’t know you could look back in time!
@gwrankin @Kyeh @Lynnerizer
I can date some of my Google Earth views of the house based on which vehicles are parked in my driveway… As well as whether mom’s house is built next door yet.
A few years back (almost certainly pre COVID) I talked to one of the Google Street view drivers at the gas station. He showed me a little bit of stuff, like the mini rack in the passenger seat with IIRC 100tb of storage. It was a neat conversation. I wish I remembered more details. He was in the area to take the car to the Subaru dealership for service, but his mapping assignment was a couple hours away. I think he told me that they would drive an area and meet another driver and trade cars, but I can’t figure out why that makes any sense unless it’s to get those drives back to a data center or get the cars to service. From what I recall though all the data was streamed back and there were techs in his system remotely pretty much continuously.
Isn’t that what’s for sale on meh today?
@keithayoungster Correct, but that is not for Google Earth. It is for Google Mole.
@keithayoungster And thus the daily survey/opinion poll.
Did you hear about the google street view driver who accidentally drank invisible ink?
He’s in the hospital emergency room, waiting to be seen.
(bad dad joke stolen from elsewhere and modified to - sort of - fit the daily survey title).
@Kidsandliz