Google probably does not employ street view drivers directly. They probably use various local subcontractors (like Amazon does with its drivers) and the IRS 1099 comes from that subcontractor. This isolates Google from liability and reduces unionization risk.
Yeah most likely that's how those big corps work, always in their best interest most the time using shady underhanded tactics, also unions can be good when they are not corrupt.....just noticed who left this comment after I started to reply ik that name 😅
@@PatriotCody Unions are almost ALWAYS a net positive and are a always a positive for the position they protect. One that is very bad is the police union. The protect those that have state authorized violence (no other union does this). This is only union that I can think of on hand that should be dissolved or severely reduced in how it operates.
@@PatriotCody While yes, Unions are more 30-70. Only 30% are actually doing good for their employees and the other 70 are corrupt AF. Like unions in education. First hand experience being in one for a good decade. While it looks like you don't have to join, the actual application was completely different and it doesn't break any laws. Basically, the union in the district I was working, if you're not part of one, your position can be given to someone who is. Also, while the entire district is failing and mostly because of the staff and the board with connection to the union, they actively fight against any charter whether independent or not from starting up in the area despite said charter willing to pay lease or even buy old lots of the buildings that the district hasn't used in over a decade when they closed local schools.
Supervisor on first day of month: "Your assignment this month is to chart 2,000 miles." Driver on next to last day: "Oh shoot, I forgot to do my homework!"
*Which explained why he wouldn't stop for the cop, he was trying to get his homework done first, telling himself just a hundred more miles and I'm done!*
I enjoyed seeing all of the self repairing cars. Jump a car, frame bends, door and quarter panel crinkled, and the next video frame, all of the crinkles are gone and the frame is arrow straight! I always wanted a car like that. 😅
I had a friend who was pulled over by a cop several years ago in North Carolina. The cop was surprised that he pulled over immediately, and asked why he didn't try to give chase.
I did that many years ago in Arizona. I was speeding, going across the open desert makes that a pretty common temptation... As I came to the edge of a small town, I dropped it down a bit, but not soon enough, and saw a state trooper running radar. I knew I was busted, so I just went ahead and pulled over. He was so confused, he didn't even know what to say! I messed up his usual approach, because he hadn't really pulled me over yet. Then to compound his confusion, I already had my license and papers ready and handed them to him as he walked up to the window. I ended up just getting a warning, but it was almost a SNL skit. Now the fun continued. I was hired as a police/ES dispatcher for another small town nearby right afterwards, and on occasion, that trooper had to stop by the station for prisoner transfer, paperwork, etc. Every time I was on duty, he would look at me, and you could tell he was thinking, "Dang it, I know this guy from somewhere". I never told him. :D
@@faelwolf1177 Mario Andretti tells the story of the time a Nevada cop wanted to do 200 mph in one of Andretti's cars, so Mario took him out on the highway to Lake Mead and had it up to about 187 when they got pulled over by another cop. I think it is still available on RUclips.
Our local news station was doing a remote news story at a park and caught a dog in the background taking a dump. He must have noticed it when he returned to the studio and decided it would be funny to pixelate the dog's face for privacy.
4:45 - I did a 1 month contract working for one of the major map companies, they put us in two man teams and one driver would use their GPS while the other used the competitor's to test their efficiency. The instruction we were given was to drive "at the pace of traffic" since they wanted to see how the average driver using it would be. They didn't want us to race to the destination, but they also didn't want us to crawl at the speed limit if traffic was moving 15mph faster (we were in Los Angeles). They gave us the conflicting instruction not to break the law, which I'm not sure would have covered them but they're a huge company that knows better than I do. There was even some weird thing in the contract about "you might be exposed to sexually charged material" that cracked me up.
speeding is against the law... impeding the flow of trraffic is against the law... If the flow of traffic is 15 over the limit, you're impeding the flow of traffic, and you are now an obstacle on the roadway putting everyone else at a safety risk. I guess that's the logic anyways.
@actualwafflesenjoyer so long as you're not the "fast lane." Lol. Don't be in that left lane if you're not going the speed of traffic. Granted, lately, traffic enforcement has been shit in general.
@@-Devy- Which is exactly why I make sure I drive so dangerously they're forced to terminate the pursuit. (This is a joke, I only drive that fast while I'm drunk)
While we're on the topic of police chases I remember watching a video a cop pulls up next to a crotch rocket. The cop asks "How fast does that go?" The biker "Do you have your radar on?" Cop "Yes" The biker proceeds to go from 45 to 150+ in a couple of seconds.
no.... no....! People can't be THAT stupid? Oh, wait, in my country just yesterday there were news on a guy who got arrested after being wanted for something really minor, he provided his brother's personal info, and was about to be released, but he asked if it's illegal to provide false ID information to police.
It would probably reflect poorly on the officers who were in hot pursuit... 😂 Somehow every police chase seems to be equivalent to a drunken brawl. (Except AJ driving OJ's white bronco in a slow pursuit... that was just a big taxpayer funeral procession.)
Google used to update the images as soon as they got them, but when they first sent the street view cars out some young ladies would flash the camera and they wouldn't know until someone reported it. Now I think they have a program that reviews the images before they go online.
Sometimes that happens. Had Google tell me to make an immediate right in Quebec. The thing is, an immediate right would take me through a guardrail, a median with a ditch in the center, another guard rail, 3 lanes of oncoming traffic, a third guard rail, a fence, a deeper ditch, up a goat-path or reasonable facsimile thereof (I could see a narrow trail of gravel in the grass), through another fence, and _then_ onto the on-ramp for the highway I wanted to be on. That same trip, I got tired of the highway and decided to ride on surface streets for a while, and they took me down a nice residential street that got rougher, and rougher, and started getting holes in the pavement, then occasional pavement in the holes, then a dirt road, and I finally turned around when I came to a fence with a hole cut in it and on the other side a cowpath across a grassy field, with a rather glum looking farmer with a shotgun standing by the hole.
They used to (automatically), That's whey we used to get variably-blurry streetviews when the driver fled shootouts or road-ragers, or lost on rough (off-road) excursions onto trails, dried creeks, and *un-* -assumed roads. - but it's been a few years since I've seen one. Dunno if this is because Google/Alphabet curates the images before putting them online; Or because the areas I go to have sidewalks and streetlights now, so the drivers aren't as unprepared for the conditions anymore.
Oh yea, its called Drive Cam, which was deployed at my former employment. Unfortunately it was not well like by the employees and became known as Castopo Cam. Before it implementation we had tons of meetings with upper management were they tried to convince us on how smart they were and that this was a brilliant idea. If you get dinged by the machine which hangs down from the rear view mirror, the light would turn red. Which was the indicator that you would shortly have a meeting with the traffic castpo. What was funny about this was for some magical reason it was upper management that kept getting dinged. So much so they stopped driving the company car and only drove their personal vehicles. Morale of the story, be careful of what you wish for.
@@Razmoudah So are you my old boss? Just kidden. All sillyness aside, now a days it is a must. Excessive speed, missed stop signs and even unusual braking. Captures it all.
@@edwardlangdon9256 It also captures when people brake-check you, cut you off to catch an exit, suddenly pull out in front of you with no warning, etc. Sure, most of those are from unusual braking events, but those are definitely NOT the driver's fault.
@@Razmoudah yes, we had a trash truck capture a motorist in the wrong lane. Coming right at him, a scary moment all caught on video. This was on a separated highway. Very lucky and quick thinking of the trash truck driver, he had to turn on the front video to capture the event.
Yep, they got caught "wardriving" years back collecting every single wifi network. Got a tiny fine and pinky promised to delete the data, now every cell phone does it and the TOS nobody reads give them permission
The camera equipment records the exact time and location of every shot. A third grader can calculate speed from that. And I wouldn't put it past google if they recorded time and position even if the camera isn't taking pictures.
@stevelehto I’d love to hear you cover the Billy Mitchell vs Twin Galaxies lawsuit. I think the court date is set for early October. From what I understand he is also currently suing a number of other people all for the same defamation charges. Nothing in particular, just anything you may find noteworthy I’d love to hear it. I have enjoyed your content for at least a few years now and you always do a fantastic job imo. Thank you for your time and the effort you put into these videos, they are both informative and entertaining.
Yeah and the guy that has one of the biggest channels 'LRHN' was actually a star of one of these videos (not a chase really but excessive speed and some other stuff).
@@gwaeron8630 I think he also got a resisting arrest charge and also had a warrant for failure to pay child support. He was also very foul' mouthed during the arrest. LRHN stands for Little Rock Hood Nation, so that tells you something right there.
I remember seeing the video of a PIT on a vehicle before the driver was even able to get off the bridge where the cop initiated a stop on a limited-access highway. The driver had slowed, activated four-way flashers and was proceeding to a safer place to stop. This, by the way, is the right of any driver in any state.
Just a shot in the dark here, but if the job is being sub contracted out to a company, that sub contracts the job out. Which is pretty common as its cheaper and keeps you from being directly liable, you get all sorts of madness. Since the little LLC at the bottom of the chain can be judgement proof. You can get away with just about anything.
@@swayback7375 That's a good point. It's impossible to not be evil. Being _less_ evil is the highest a man can strive for, and they no longer consider it important at Google.
If the autoparts store I worked for as a driver collected data on how I was driving (which wouldn't impact my job at all), google sure as hell collects data on how their streetview cars are driven. That is especially true since it would be an easy metric to gauge the possible quality of those images. They do gather images at decent speeds, since they aren't slow poking it to collect them on the highway. I suspect so long as they don't go over the speed limit by too much, they are fine. This one would have sent up a big red flag.
The camera has to know how fast the car is going in order to know how fast to click the camera otherwise, the pictures from street view would be at Random distance apart because of the vehicle speed changing in normal traffic.
It doesn't need to know the speed, if it's just based on GPS position. "I am now 6 feet away from the last picture I took, click." Some versions also use video recordings instead of individual pictures.
@@TheScrubmuffin69eh. Is it the programmers job to include notifications of a employer breaking the law when he was paid to make a program take photos?
In the next town over, I slowed to 15mph in the posted School Zone (school in session), I was pulled over because "The car behind the kop, tried to pass him". I "Was going too slow."
One point I would mention is, the Google Streetview apparatus is likely not as integral to the vehicle as you might imagine. For reasons of curiosity once, I looked at the Google "Street"view of Iqaluit (an extremely remote town in Northern Canada). Remarkably, there is a streetview! But... if you look at the shadows, you can see that the pictures were taken by someone walking around with the camera rig mounted on a pack on their back. At a guess, when you get hired to do this job they ship you the camera rig with instructions on how to mount it, where they want you to go, and some kind of contract which indemnifies them for what you do in the process. You're probably not even paid by the hour but rather by how many miles of road you get pictures of (if the pictures are approved for posting.)
Keep in mind that "Street View" is not confined to streets, so there are more portable versions of their cameras. You can see "street views" inside malls and museums and up on mountain trails. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a "street view" of a camera going over Niagara Falls. And let's not forget all the possibilities when Google cameras are attached to drones.
The cats I have seen IRL, and seen reflections of in Google Maps, all have a certain custom wrap that would have been professionally put on the car. The Apple Maps LookArounnd cats are just white with the corporate apple logo and the words Apple Maps on black on the sides.
The Google Streetview car is continuously logging GPS position and time data. Since it knows when and where it is at all times, Google also knows EXACTLY how fast it is going at all time! It would be trivial for Google to scan the data at the end of a recording session and tell drivers, "Your peak speed was more than 10mph over the speed limit... you're fired!" Google maps also keeps a database of speed limits on roads, but since it's based on recognizing speed limit signs recorded by Streetview, it's not complete and not always up-to-date.
4:30 Knowing how Google works they never give instructions and every 30 minutes the rules will change without reason. Also, I think they set up another company to take the photos etc so you are not directly employed by Google
Mr Lehto sir. As a citizen of one of those "southern states" that like to flee law enforcement. You do know I do have a right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". I fled the scene to pursue happiness rather than being incarcerated. I rest my case.
Google probably has some sort of quota system that encourages going faster without actually mentioning speed. Not excusing the guy, just saying that might be why it happened.
When I lived in Illinois, I saw a family in my town where three members each drove for Google. I believe they were using their personal cars because the equipment appeared one day. I bet they are insuring their own vehicles for liability. I bet the equipment cost more than their cars.
@@lurch789 your are right about that. These cars were a small SUV and two Prius. But these people lived in a fairly affluent area so who knows. My son was unemployed for a little while and he drove Uber. He had one vehicle that "qualified", meaning it was new enough. They only allow late model cars with no damage or rust and clean interior. If you are near a populated city or airport and you choose the busy times, you can barely make a living. But you are wearing out your car for the man. My dad is retired and drove groceries for a while but that is a soul sucking job and the shorter trips are hard on the car. Since he's older, carrying bags of groceries isn't good either. On another video channel about little grocery delivery robots, a few people berated me for thinking the robots were a good idea, being that the "robots are taking away good jobs". That is laughable because those jobs suck.
@@user-no1cares So technically you could have beaten me, if you had gotten to the video early enough, took me 0:15 and then the time to come up with a catch line. BTW If I had waited for the RUclips notification, I would have been 2 mins later.
I am thinking the police were looking at their speedo and being a very long distance away reached this speed to catch up - if you have ever seen a Google Streetview Car first thing you see is they are not capable of doing 100mph and that's even before they put all the Google stuff on the car that slows it down
Quite possible. I was pulled over for speeding in a 55 zone. Officer said he had to go 80 to catch me. He could have caught me going 62, but it would have taken a lot longer.
I've got a feeling the drivers have bonuses they can't get without speeding all the time. *edit I'm exaggerating, I really mean it's not easy without speeding* I drive a lot and the two booking platforms I use will frequently give significant bonuses for a certain number of bookings in a certain time period and it takes working hard every day during that period to be sure you can get it without speeding. I also know that every time a driver speeds on the booking platform they don't necessarily get reprimanded, so it can look like a way to shortcut your time with a feeling of no harm no foul, especially since professional drivers frequently have better driving skills than most people, or at least they think they do! I would imagine that if you do it enough without getting caught you get bolder and bolder, especially when there's a 6-lane highway with no traffic (55 mph with 40 for a school zone? I wouldn't want to be a kid crossing a big highway like that, and at 40 an SUV will not spare a pedestrian devastating injuries).
Yeah this feels like the sales jobs that require you not to do anything unethical on paper and then tie your bonuses to targets that are impossible to meet without doing anything unethical (and just turn a blind eye to your sales tactics until someone complains to the state regulator)
My late father was an airline pilot here in Australia. Dad was telling me about another pilot who got stopped for speeding. The cop asked" why are you driving so fast? and do you think you're an airline pilot?" The pilot answered "yes". I don't recall whether he was fined or not.
Possibly apocryphal tale. There is a long straight road going into Cecil Field Naval Air Station. Fighter pilot got ticketed three times on that road. The fourth time, the cop sees a light down the road, starts clocking. 140 mph, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 199 blink blink blink. The light goes out. *WHOOM* the officer is knocked flat, every piece of glass in the cruiser is broken, two lights vanish into the distance. He was clocking an F-4 down on the deck with everything hung out at 150. Light went out when the gear came up. Was doing Mach 1.2 when he passed the cruiser. Lights vanishing into the distance were the exhaust in full burner. No repercussions--seems the base commander and the squadron commander also had issues with that cop.
@@johnbrobston1334 Yep definitely didn't happen. I own a radar gun AND I'm a pilot. I know that the range of a radar gun is usually no more than 1/4 mile or so. There is no way a Phantom could get up to 1.2 mach in that short period of time. I bought my radar gun to clock airplanes and I've struggled to get any readings even on final because they are out of range so fast.
The photography system in the car is aware of the speed the car is going at. It needs that information to calculate the interval of time between each capture. Each capture is taken at a fixed distance from the previous one no matter if it is a highway or a residential street. However I cannot tell if the speed is logged for any other purpose such as monitoring the quality of the driver's work.
It had already been well established that "no stopping for any reason" was at the top of the list of instructions to google drivers. This is undoubtedly why he was afraid to stop. It's also well known that the second most important rule is reaching your checkpoints on time. Which is to the second, the speed limit the whole way. Presumably, that means he was going so fast cause he was more afraid of being late to his next checkpoint than he was of getting in the car accident. Also, google make sure that their quote independent contractors unquote own everything as a cut-out to google's liability.
The best police chase I know of happened in the 1950s. The policeman was waiting to catch speeders at night, but fell asleep. Kids snuck up and hooked a logging chain around the rear axle, and the other end to a tree. There was slack in the chain. Then they sped by. Of course the shackles on the leaf springs broke. What used to be prank would now be prison time.
That was never a prank to begin with. That's destruction of property and a huge waste of taxpayer money. Just because no one gets hurt, doesn't mean it's ok to do it and call it a prank.
I disagree. Speed limits in Texas in some places are 85 and the roads are designed for it. 100 isn't unreasonable, though definitely illegal. I've hit 92 or 93 on that road and it was no biggie.
@@kitsuneneko2567”I did it and I didn’t die”. that doesn’t make it safe for the average driver. Most of y’all can’t back out of a parking spot, I don’t trust any of y’all going 100. You ever drive thru Atlanta?
@@kitsuneneko2567 I'm not arguing that it isn't legal or even doable by some folks. I am saying that as one increases the rate of speed that they travel they also narrow the margins of safety increasing the danger to them and others. I'm not a hypocrite though. I've hit 120 on the PA turnpike. I just choose not to do that any more.
Given law enforcement's 'need' to impress the public with their total 'professionalism', (in this case their high speed driving skills), it is likely that Officer Speedy, instigated the chase, so that the video could be used in a "public service advertisement", OR, so that he could show off his 'talents' to his buddies back at the station. After all, egos MUST be stoked, if they are to remain inflated.
I own a farm, and at one time, Google satellite view showed me on the way to a field with a tractor, AND in the field. Two pictures stitched together taken minutes apart.
Streetview seems to get updated more commonly in more "crowded" areas, and usually every 2-4 years. I've never seen one of their cars in person, but I've seen pictures of them.
Back in the day we installed a sensor tape and sensor on the wheel that was connected to a computer set up in the rear of the vehicle. We had discussion on why wouldn't they use the wheel speed sensor, but it was more accurate with their sensor. The whole system was independent.
I would be willing to bet that in the line of supervisors that guy has/had, each one would add on an additional X amount of miles/locations until it got to his direct supervisor that looked at the requirements and told the driver "just get it done, I don't care how." That could be why he was afraid to stop: they "forget" and told him near the end of the period that he had to have an additional amount if he wanted to keep his job
Maybe he was making a map for speed readers.... My brother knew a truck driver hauling a load and got pulled over for going about a hundred mph. The cop asked him if he knew he was speeding, and was not amused when the trucker said "how could I be speeding, I had three more gears to go"!
Thank you to the law enforcement officers for getting involved and treying to stop that very dangerous driver. Driving at a high rate of speed is something I do not think most humans in any country know how to do safely in real life. I hope I could if going more then 80 Miles Per Hour in real life.
I don’t think Google owns the cars. I think they are just the service company that provided the stitching equipment used, and the imagery output on their site
@1:17 Street view caught a college friend, working under his pickup truck in his driveway. His legs were sticking out from under the truck. My horse ran out to the wire fence for a selfie 🐴😁 when they came by.✌️
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Google probably does not employ street view drivers directly. They probably use various local subcontractors (like Amazon does with its drivers) and the IRS 1099 comes from that subcontractor. This isolates Google from liability and reduces unionization risk.
Could be the case however, it won't shield Google from getting their name tarnished by the liberal media.
Yeah most likely that's how those big corps work, always in their best interest most the time using shady underhanded tactics, also unions can be good when they are not corrupt.....just noticed who left this comment after I started to reply ik that name 😅
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@@PatriotCody Unions are almost ALWAYS a net positive and are a always a positive for the position they protect. One that is very bad is the police union. The protect those that have state authorized violence (no other union does this). This is only union that I can think of on hand that should be dissolved or severely reduced in how it operates.
@@PatriotCody While yes, Unions are more 30-70. Only 30% are actually doing good for their employees and the other 70 are corrupt AF. Like unions in education. First hand experience being in one for a good decade. While it looks like you don't have to join, the actual application was completely different and it doesn't break any laws. Basically, the union in the district I was working, if you're not part of one, your position can be given to someone who is. Also, while the entire district is failing and mostly because of the staff and the board with connection to the union, they actively fight against any charter whether independent or not from starting up in the area despite said charter willing to pay lease or even buy old lots of the buildings that the district hasn't used in over a decade when they closed local schools.
Supervisor on first day of month: "Your assignment this month is to chart 2,000 miles."
Driver on next to last day: "Oh shoot, I forgot to do my homework!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*Which explained why he wouldn't stop for the cop, he was trying to get his homework done first, telling himself just a hundred more miles and I'm done!*
Yeah, he will be reprimanded! Those pictures will all be blurry!
@@prunabluepepper *Just like all those UFO pictures, those are all blurry.*
I cant get arrested before finals
I remember watching documentaries of running from the cops in the 80s.
I am still surprised at how many wildlife cameras Hazzard County had back then.
nicely done.
It was the enourmous speed bumps/pot holes constsntly launching cars into the air that always got me.
beautiful! lol
Yeah a lot of things seemed to happen around that area.
I enjoyed seeing all of the self repairing cars. Jump a car, frame bends, door and quarter panel crinkled, and the next video frame, all of the crinkles are gone and the frame is arrow straight! I always wanted a car like that. 😅
When Steve said it was a Florida man...I just laughed and knew that all bets were off. 😂😂
But... but it happened in Indiana... and I thought that Indiana was so BOOOOOOORING!
Floriduh?
@@Martys-4x4 Oh, did I spell "Indiana" wrongly? Should it be In-duh-duh-duh-diana?
@@Martys-4x4 B-Bb BooOOOOOOOOOoOOOOOoOOOoOOoooooOOOooorrrrrrrr-ing
I had a friend who was pulled over by a cop several years ago in North Carolina. The cop was surprised that he pulled over immediately, and asked why he didn't try to give chase.
I did that many years ago in Arizona. I was speeding, going across the open desert makes that a pretty common temptation... As I came to the edge of a small town, I dropped it down a bit, but not soon enough, and saw a state trooper running radar. I knew I was busted, so I just went ahead and pulled over. He was so confused, he didn't even know what to say! I messed up his usual approach, because he hadn't really pulled me over yet. Then to compound his confusion, I already had my license and papers ready and handed them to him as he walked up to the window. I ended up just getting a warning, but it was almost a SNL skit.
Now the fun continued. I was hired as a police/ES dispatcher for another small town nearby right afterwards, and on occasion, that trooper had to stop by the station for prisoner transfer, paperwork, etc. Every time I was on duty, he would look at me, and you could tell he was thinking, "Dang it, I know this guy from somewhere". I never told him. :D
@@faelwolf1177 Mario Andretti tells the story of the time a Nevada cop wanted to do 200 mph in one of Andretti's cars, so Mario took him out on the highway to Lake Mead and had it up to about 187 when they got pulled over by another cop. I think it is still available on RUclips.
@@faelwolf1177 lol what a story, made me chuckle
@@faelwolf1177 thats freaking awesome lol
"Uh, because I value my liberty, sir. Am I free to go?"
Years back a Google street view car captured my neighbors dog doing his doody #2 in my front yard. I still have the screenshot. Its hilarious 😂
Too funny
I can see a friend working in his garage! Too funny.
Doing his doody?
Our local news station was doing a remote news story at a park and caught a dog in the background taking a dump. He must have noticed it when he returned to the studio and decided it would be funny to pixelate the dog's face for privacy.
@@joesterling4299 thanks for the correction. I fixed it
4:45 - I did a 1 month contract working for one of the major map companies, they put us in two man teams and one driver would use their GPS while the other used the competitor's to test their efficiency. The instruction we were given was to drive "at the pace of traffic" since they wanted to see how the average driver using it would be. They didn't want us to race to the destination, but they also didn't want us to crawl at the speed limit if traffic was moving 15mph faster (we were in Los Angeles). They gave us the conflicting instruction not to break the law, which I'm not sure would have covered them but they're a huge company that knows better than I do. There was even some weird thing in the contract about "you might be exposed to sexually charged material" that cracked me up.
speeding is against the law...
impeding the flow of trraffic is against the law...
If the flow of traffic is 15 over the limit, you're impeding the flow of traffic, and you are now an obstacle on the roadway putting everyone else at a safety risk.
I guess that's the logic anyways.
@actualwafflesenjoyer so long as you're not the "fast lane." Lol. Don't be in that left lane if you're not going the speed of traffic. Granted, lately, traffic enforcement has been shit in general.
Seems like a 100mph pass would make the Google Maps images kinda blurry online.
eh, a bit
Hate when I'm doing 100 in a school zone and they try to pull me over. Smh
Speed limit here is about 20 mph in school zones. If you exceed that limit by more than 10 mph they just take your license on the spot.
@@-Devy- Which is exactly why I make sure I drive so dangerously they're forced to terminate the pursuit.
(This is a joke, I only drive that fast while I'm drunk)
@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 that's quite irresponsible :(
That happens a lot when Google maps is wrong.
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Around here it is usually 25 MPH on any street going past a school and 20 MPH when children are present.
In an attempt to make an ultra realistic GTA game, Google is taking it just a bit too far😂
While we're on the topic of police chases I remember watching a video a cop pulls up next to a crotch rocket. The cop asks "How fast does that go?" The biker "Do you have your radar on?"
Cop "Yes" The biker proceeds to go from 45 to 150+ in a couple of seconds.
Yes
no.... no....! People can't be THAT stupid? Oh, wait, in my country just yesterday there were news on a guy who got arrested after being wanted for something really minor, he provided his brother's personal info, and was about to be released, but he asked if it's illegal to provide false ID information to police.
Sounds like a 1%er
@@VatharianA lot of areas have a 'no chase' rule in effect for motorcycles. Due to their massively higher maneuverability and speed.
@@dachine86 Not to mention many bikes (like a Kawasaki and Suzuki) are much faster than any cop car.
It would be nice if Google would share the video in real time.😂
It would probably reflect poorly on the officers who were in hot pursuit... 😂
Somehow every police chase seems to be equivalent to a drunken brawl. (Except AJ driving OJ's white bronco in a slow pursuit... that was just a big taxpayer funeral procession.)
Google used to update the images as soon as they got them, but when they first sent the street view cars out some young ladies would flash the camera and they wouldn't know until someone reported it. Now I think they have a program that reviews the images before they go online.
This is what your neighborhood would look like if you were going real fast
Back to the future only need 88mph. Need at least 100mph to go back to the good old days.
I always thought it was artifact tearing/loading when I clicked that street view move arrow 🤔
😂😂😂
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Officer: "So, how'd you get in this creek?"
Google Driver: "I was following Google Maps and the creek wasn't on that road."
Sometimes that happens. Had Google tell me to make an immediate right in Quebec. The thing is, an immediate right would take me through a guardrail, a median with a ditch in the center, another guard rail, 3 lanes of oncoming traffic, a third guard rail, a fence, a deeper ditch, up a goat-path or reasonable facsimile thereof (I could see a narrow trail of gravel in the grass), through another fence, and _then_ onto the on-ramp for the highway I wanted to be on. That same trip, I got tired of the highway and decided to ride on surface streets for a while, and they took me down a nice residential street that got rougher, and rougher, and started getting holes in the pavement, then occasional pavement in the holes, then a dirt road, and I finally turned around when I came to a fence with a hole cut in it and on the other side a cowpath across a grassy field, with a rather glum looking farmer with a shotgun standing by the hole.
Damn, I just HATE it when that happens.
We want Google to release this video!
They used to (automatically), That's whey we used to get variably-blurry streetviews when the driver fled shootouts or road-ragers, or lost on rough (off-road) excursions onto trails, dried creeks, and *un-* -assumed roads. - but it's been a few years since I've seen one.
Dunno if this is because Google/Alphabet curates the images before putting them online; Or because the areas I go to have sidewalks and streetlights now, so the drivers aren't as unprepared for the conditions anymore.
@@LynxSnowCat I'd still like to see the original video.
It will be one long blur till the point when he got stuck! 😂😂😂
Hey, this is just the new google feature... high speed creek view.
Oh yea, its called Drive Cam, which was deployed at my former employment. Unfortunately it was not well like by the employees and became known as Castopo Cam. Before it implementation we had tons of meetings with upper management were they tried to convince us on how smart they were and that this was a brilliant idea. If you get dinged by the machine which hangs down from the rear view mirror, the light would turn red. Which was the indicator that you would shortly have a meeting with the traffic castpo. What was funny about this was for some magical reason it was upper management that kept getting dinged. So much so they stopped driving the company car and only drove their personal vehicles. Morale of the story, be careful of what you wish for.
Hmmmm......sounds to me like that Drive Cam was the perfect solution for that companies problems involving people improperly driving the company cars.
@@Razmoudah So are you my old boss? Just kidden. All sillyness aside, now a days it is a must. Excessive speed, missed stop signs and even unusual braking. Captures it all.
@@edwardlangdon9256 It also captures when people brake-check you, cut you off to catch an exit, suddenly pull out in front of you with no warning, etc. Sure, most of those are from unusual braking events, but those are definitely NOT the driver's fault.
@@Razmoudah yes, we had a trash truck capture a motorist in the wrong lane. Coming right at him, a scary moment all caught on video. This was on a separated highway. Very lucky and quick thinking of the trash truck driver, he had to turn on the front video to capture the event.
@@edwardlangdon9256 I hope the video was able to catch the license plate, as the cops can use that as proof to retroactively ticket that idiot.
Perfect example of somebody who was most likely hired based on all the wrong criteria
DEI hire. LOL!
If Google doesn't have all the data on how the car was being driven it's probably because they don't like it when someone is recording all THEIR data.
Yep, they got caught "wardriving" years back collecting every single wifi network. Got a tiny fine and pinky promised to delete the data, now every cell phone does it and the TOS nobody reads give them permission
That makes literally zero sense. It's their car. How exactly is "someone recording their data"?
The camera equipment records the exact time and location of every shot. A third grader can calculate speed from that.
And I wouldn't put it past google if they recorded time and position even if the camera isn't taking pictures.
Now that's efficient mapping!
@stevelehto I’d love to hear you cover the Billy Mitchell vs Twin Galaxies lawsuit. I think the court date is set for early October. From what I understand he is also currently suing a number of other people all for the same defamation charges. Nothing in particular, just anything you may find noteworthy I’d love to hear it. I have enjoyed your content for at least a few years now and you always do a fantastic job imo. Thank you for your time and the effort you put into these videos, they are both informative and entertaining.
LEGTO
They could tell it was a Google Street View car and not Bing StreetSide because it could hit 100 MPH without falling apart.
Arkansas has the best police chases.
Yeah and the guy that has one of the biggest channels 'LRHN' was actually a star of one of these videos (not a chase really but excessive speed and some other stuff).
Yeah I've caught on to that as well. They don't play! PIT maneuver real quick 20MPH or 120MPH zero fahhQs!
@@gwaeron8630 I think he also got a resisting arrest charge and also had a warrant for failure to pay child support. He was also very foul' mouthed during the arrest. LRHN stands for Little Rock Hood Nation, so that tells you something right there.
Yup, had a 110 mph pit happen only about 2 miles from my house
I remember seeing the video of a PIT on a vehicle before the driver was even able to get off the bridge where the cop initiated a stop on a limited-access highway. The driver had slowed, activated four-way flashers and was proceeding to a safer place to stop. This, by the way, is the right of any driver in any state.
This is what happens when you remove the prohibition of evil from company policy: you get chaotic people doing chaotic things.
Just a shot in the dark here, but if the job is being sub contracted out to a company, that sub contracts the job out. Which is pretty common as its cheaper and keeps you from being directly liable, you get all sorts of madness.
Since the little LLC at the bottom of the chain can be judgement proof. You can get away with just about anything.
People forget, it was “be LESS evil”.
Not “don’t be evil”
These are very different statements
That policy went over like a lead balloon, didn't it?
@@swayback7375
That's a good point.
It's impossible to not be evil.
Being _less_ evil is the highest a man can strive for, and they no longer consider it important at Google.
Florida man had to be involved somehow.
He had a Florida drivers license. LOL . I just read a news artical about it
If the autoparts store I worked for as a driver collected data on how I was driving (which wouldn't impact my job at all), google sure as hell collects data on how their streetview cars are driven. That is especially true since it would be an easy metric to gauge the possible quality of those images. They do gather images at decent speeds, since they aren't slow poking it to collect them on the highway. I suspect so long as they don't go over the speed limit by too much, they are fine. This one would have sent up a big red flag.
The camera has to know how fast the car is going in order to know how fast to click the camera otherwise, the pictures from street view would be at Random distance apart because of the vehicle speed changing in normal traffic.
I think the shutter is controlled automatically, like several frames a second
It doesn't need to know the speed, if it's just based on GPS position. "I am now 6 feet away from the last picture I took, click."
Some versions also use video recordings instead of individual pictures.
@GamesFromSpace yes... but if the camera or whatever knows you've gone 2 blocks in 3 seconds it should wave a flag or something lol
@@TheScrubmuffin69eh. Is it the programmers job to include notifications of a employer breaking the law when he was paid to make a program take photos?
The guys phone has it, too.
I see Steve is a man of culture as well and watches all the ASP Mopar police pursuits.
2:09 For those curious, he's speaking about Arkansas State Police. Come visit us sometime, won't you? Not too quickly, though.
Love their 100+ mph PIT maneuvers
Be sure to be "riding dirty" when you do.
StreetView also has images taken from boats along rivers. And along bike paths, and some walking trails. And drone shots at major points of interest.
Love this content. Makes me feel above average.
This was the fastest that area had ever been mapped...
Tight schedule. Lol
This should be in the next GTA game
I'm a Florida Man and this is on the bucket list. Can you imagine the pictures recovered via Street View
In the next town over, I slowed to 15mph in the posted School Zone (school in session), I was pulled over because "The car behind the kop, tried to pass him". I "Was going too slow."
Ben Franklin hiding behind the Batmobile screen left of Steve. Great story and analysis as usual.
One point I would mention is, the Google Streetview apparatus is likely not as integral to the vehicle as you might imagine. For reasons of curiosity once, I looked at the Google "Street"view of Iqaluit (an extremely remote town in Northern Canada). Remarkably, there is a streetview! But... if you look at the shadows, you can see that the pictures were taken by someone walking around with the camera rig mounted on a pack on their back.
At a guess, when you get hired to do this job they ship you the camera rig with instructions on how to mount it, where they want you to go, and some kind of contract which indemnifies them for what you do in the process. You're probably not even paid by the hour but rather by how many miles of road you get pictures of (if the pictures are approved for posting.)
presumably some roads are impassable / inaccessable by motor vehicles
Keep in mind that "Street View" is not confined to streets, so there are more portable versions of their cameras. You can see "street views" inside malls and museums and up on mountain trails. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a "street view" of a camera going over Niagara Falls. And let's not forget all the possibilities when Google cameras are attached to drones.
@@peetieyou quite a few UK footpaths I would like to be able to virtually trek down, but cannot at present
@@peetieyouand “StreetView” has been to Stonehenge and the viewing platforms of the Eiffel Tower.
The cats I have seen IRL, and seen reflections of in Google Maps, all have a certain custom wrap that would have been professionally put on the car. The Apple Maps LookArounnd cats are just white with the corporate apple logo and the words Apple Maps on black on the sides.
The Google Streetview car is continuously logging GPS position and time data. Since it knows when and where it is at all times, Google also knows EXACTLY how fast it is going at all time! It would be trivial for Google to scan the data at the end of a recording session and tell drivers, "Your peak speed was more than 10mph over the speed limit... you're fired!" Google maps also keeps a database of speed limits on roads, but since it's based on recognizing speed limit signs recorded by Streetview, it's not complete and not always up-to-date.
How funny. I sometimes wonder if a person gets up in the morning and says, "I have a boring day ahead of me. I guess I'll spice it up a bit." 🚔😄😉😅
Only saw the title and gave a thumbs up. Just tremendous.
4:30 Knowing how Google works they never give instructions and every 30 minutes the rules will change without reason.
Also, I think they set up another company to take the photos etc so you are not directly employed by Google
Ahh, something to limit googles liability would make sense.
Mr. Lehto, from my understanding Oracle Corporation is actually the leading data collector out of all tech companies.
you'd think that the car that literally is there to create the maps wouldn't have gotten lost so easily during the chase lol!
Now that’s a dash cam I want one
Mr Lehto sir. As a citizen of one of those "southern states" that like to flee law enforcement. You do know I do have a right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". I fled the scene to pursue happiness rather than being incarcerated. I rest my case.
Google probably has some sort of quota system that encourages going faster without actually mentioning speed. Not excusing the guy, just saying that might be why it happened.
I would imagine their little rules or goals are quite similar to what Amazon and its various contractors lays out.
Hey maybe with this many cameras , GPS, On-board speed monitoring etc ... Maybe some clandestine MOVIE footage ? !
'In a theater near you soon ' 😂
When I lived in Illinois, I saw a family in my town where three members each drove for Google. I believe they were using their personal cars because the equipment appeared one day. I bet they are insuring their own vehicles for liability. I bet the equipment cost more than their cars.
Most likely, you are not going to see one on a Tesla, probably a 15 year old Corolla.
@@toriless yes they were all old cars.
@@lurch789 your are right about that. These cars were a small SUV and two Prius. But these people lived in a fairly affluent area so who knows.
My son was unemployed for a little while and he drove Uber. He had one vehicle that "qualified", meaning it was new enough. They only allow late model cars with no damage or rust and clean interior. If you are near a populated city or airport and you choose the busy times, you can barely make a living. But you are wearing out your car for the man. My dad is retired and drove groceries for a while but that is a soul sucking job and the shorter trips are hard on the car. Since he's older, carrying bags of groceries isn't good either. On another video channel about little grocery delivery robots, a few people berated me for thinking the robots were a good idea, being that the "robots are taking away good jobs". That is laughable because those jobs suck.
Steve the reason he drove so fast was he had a high speed camera attached to his car. 😂😂
Imagine how fast the cop had to go to catch up
Thanks for explaining how Google maps works, would've gotten lost without you.
Ben asking Batman if he can come with the Dynamic Duo, Steve's RHS
Only took me 0:14 in to find it today.
@@user-no1cares So technically you could have beaten me, if you had gotten to the video early enough, took me 0:15 and then the time to come up with a catch line.
BTW If I had waited for the RUclips notification, I would have been 2 mins later.
@@Bobs-Wrigles5555 Steve has a couple of side angles going that keep views up. 😃
Steve throwing those lemon law gang signs again...
I am thinking the police were looking at their speedo and being a very long distance away reached this speed to catch up - if you have ever seen a Google Streetview Car first thing you see is they are not capable of doing 100mph and that's even before they put all the Google stuff on the car that slows it down
Quite possible. I was pulled over for speeding in a 55 zone. Officer said he had to go 80 to catch me. He could have caught me going 62, but it would have taken a lot longer.
Police use calibrated speed monitoring devices. Otherwise it wouldn't hold up in court.
Although you’ve presented the case with all your usual enthusiasm that keeps me coming back, this story was really missing the autonomous google car.
I've got a feeling the drivers have bonuses they can't get without speeding all the time. *edit I'm exaggerating, I really mean it's not easy without speeding* I drive a lot and the two booking platforms I use will frequently give significant bonuses for a certain number of bookings in a certain time period and it takes working hard every day during that period to be sure you can get it without speeding. I also know that every time a driver speeds on the booking platform they don't necessarily get reprimanded, so it can look like a way to shortcut your time with a feeling of no harm no foul, especially since professional drivers frequently have better driving skills than most people, or at least they think they do! I would imagine that if you do it enough without getting caught you get bolder and bolder, especially when there's a 6-lane highway with no traffic (55 mph with 40 for a school zone? I wouldn't want to be a kid crossing a big highway like that, and at 40 an SUV will not spare a pedestrian devastating injuries).
Yeah this feels like the sales jobs that require you not to do anything unethical on paper and then tie your bonuses to targets that are impossible to meet without doing anything unethical (and just turn a blind eye to your sales tactics until someone complains to the state regulator)
Hell Drivers (1957)
My late father was an airline pilot here in Australia. Dad was telling me about another pilot who got stopped for speeding. The cop asked" why are you driving so fast? and do you think you're an airline pilot?" The pilot answered "yes". I don't recall whether he was fined or not.
Possibly apocryphal tale. There is a long straight road going into Cecil Field Naval Air Station. Fighter pilot got ticketed three times on that road. The fourth time, the cop sees a light down the road, starts clocking. 140 mph, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 199 blink blink blink. The light goes out. *WHOOM* the officer is knocked flat, every piece of glass in the cruiser is broken, two lights vanish into the distance.
He was clocking an F-4 down on the deck with everything hung out at 150. Light went out when the gear came up. Was doing Mach 1.2 when he passed the cruiser. Lights vanishing into the distance were the exhaust in full burner. No repercussions--seems the base commander and the squadron commander also had issues with that cop.
@@johnbrobston1334 Yep definitely didn't happen. I own a radar gun AND I'm a pilot. I know that the range of a radar gun is usually no more than 1/4 mile or so. There is no way a Phantom could get up to 1.2 mach in that short period of time. I bought my radar gun to clock airplanes and I've struggled to get any readings even on final because they are out of range so fast.
“Florida Man”
The photography system in the car is aware of the speed the car is going at. It needs that information to calculate the interval of time between each capture. Each capture is taken at a fixed distance from the previous one no matter if it is a highway or a residential street.
However I cannot tell if the speed is logged for any other purpose such as monitoring the quality of the driver's work.
It had already been well established that "no stopping for any reason" was at the top of the list of instructions to google drivers. This is undoubtedly why he was afraid to stop. It's also well known that the second most important rule is reaching your checkpoints on time. Which is to the second, the speed limit the whole way. Presumably, that means he was going so fast cause he was more afraid of being late to his next checkpoint than he was of getting in the car accident. Also, google make sure that their quote independent contractors unquote own everything as a cut-out to google's liability.
Where was this 'well established'?
@@lucienve MSNBC, AP, Cnn, and DW of the top of my head
An interview with the guy in charge of the program in the UK said Google owns the cars but contracts out the drivers.
@@MrMontanaNights Then it's different than it is in the states.
That's epic! I so much want to see that on Street view!
The best police chase I know of happened in the 1950s. The policeman was waiting to catch speeders at night, but fell asleep. Kids snuck up and hooked a logging chain around the rear axle, and the other end to a tree. There was slack in the chain. Then they sped by. Of course the shackles on the leaf springs broke.
What used to be prank would now be prison time.
That was never a prank to begin with. That's destruction of property and a huge waste of taxpayer money. Just because no one gets hurt, doesn't mean it's ok to do it and call it a prank.
Bull Shit That was a scene from AMERICAN GRAFFITI
@@walmartdog1142Plenty of movies had this, the main one is every which way but loose with Clint Eastwood.
never saw that one@@jasonbourne1596
@@walmartdog1142 Friend told me about it in about 1971 or 1972, a year or two before the movie.
Mapping professional here.GPS coordinates of each camera frame can be displayed in a timeline with gps coordinates.Speeds can be derived
I'm not sure if it's me getting old or what, but 100mph in ANY scenario is just asking for death and dismemberment.
I disagree. Speed limits in Texas in some places are 85 and the roads are designed for it. 100 isn't unreasonable, though definitely illegal. I've hit 92 or 93 on that road and it was no biggie.
@@kitsuneneko2567”I did it and I didn’t die”. that doesn’t make it safe for the average driver. Most of y’all can’t back out of a parking spot, I don’t trust any of y’all going 100.
You ever drive thru Atlanta?
@@kitsuneneko2567 I'm not arguing that it isn't legal or even doable by some folks. I am saying that as one increases the rate of speed that they travel they also narrow the margins of safety increasing the danger to them and others. I'm not a hypocrite though. I've hit 120 on the PA turnpike. I just choose not to do that any more.
@@PhenomRomJust because all the drivers are jackwagons where you’re from doesn’t mean it’s the same everywhere.
Yup.. getting old... I feel the same way. It is really only safe to do those speeds where it is intended... Not on city streets or freeways.
I look forward to the new Google map feature...Creek view
Given law enforcement's 'need' to impress the public with their total 'professionalism', (in this case their high speed driving skills), it is likely that Officer Speedy, instigated the chase, so that the video could be used in a "public service advertisement", OR, so that he could show off his 'talents' to his buddies back at the station.
After all, egos MUST be stoked, if they are to remain inflated.
My father, who just turned 100 in June, fought through Groningen with the Canadian Army during WWII.
First
*I suspect Google told their Map driver that "we need to speed things up", and this driver mistakenly took it to mean, literally, drive faster.*
First 😂
1:05 Google has Street View imagery from May and June of this year for that highway, good chance your car appears in it somewhere!
I remember that speed baiting cops was a popular pastime on Woodward Ave in the 60's-70's.
Good times.
State Police: we have you recorded going over 100mph, Chase Google Streetview Car: Armatures, you got nothing.
I own a farm, and at one time, Google satellite view showed me on the way to a field with a tractor, AND in the field. Two pictures stitched together taken minutes apart.
Driver was just following Google Maps directions, "..in 200 feet accelerate for 20 miles."
One of the antennas on the top of the car is for a very precise GPS system. Think centimeters rather than meters as every photo has to be geo-located.
Can't wait for the pursuit channels to show this, that's got to be some crazy and funny footage and commentary.
Now this is a crazy development
The car ended up in a creek. Rumour has it that he driver was found up that creek without a paddle.
Streetview seems to get updated more commonly in more "crowded" areas, and usually every 2-4 years.
I've never seen one of their cars in person, but I've seen pictures of them.
Landing in the creek is part of Google's new "Favorite Fishing Spots" feature.
When Steve wanted to call out somewhere in the south.... I feel called out for my local pit maneuvering friends lol
with the camera mounted above the car body they're legally limited to a maximum of 55mph and 5mph under any other lower posted speed limit....
Didn't know they drove that fast
Back in the day we installed a sensor tape and sensor on the wheel that was connected to a computer set up in the rear of the vehicle. We had discussion on why wouldn't they use the wheel speed sensor, but it was more accurate with their sensor. The whole system was independent.
I would be willing to bet that in the line of supervisors that guy has/had, each one would add on an additional X amount of miles/locations until it got to his direct supervisor that looked at the requirements and told the driver "just get it done, I don't care how." That could be why he was afraid to stop: they "forget" and told him near the end of the period that he had to have an additional amount if he wanted to keep his job
100mph? With the drag of the pylon? Probably 100kmh. I love these stories that are near physically impossible
“Florida Man”. Why am I not surprised he was one of ours. 😂
This is amazing.
I hope google releases the pictures
Maybe he was making a map for speed readers.... My brother knew a truck driver hauling a load and got pulled over for going about a hundred mph. The cop asked him if he knew he was speeding, and was not amused when the trucker said "how could I be speeding, I had three more gears to go"!
Driverless car was my 1st thought also. Was at a stoplight once. Looked to my left and there was google car with no driver. Felt kind of weird
The Google driver must have gotten a late start and was trying to make up lost time, LOL!
That was my first thought, too. A driverless car going on the fritz. Then we find out it's Florida and suddenly it all makes sense.
Thank you to the law enforcement officers for getting involved and treying to stop that very dangerous driver. Driving at a high rate of speed is something I do not think most humans in any country know how to do safely in real life. I hope I could if going more then 80 Miles Per Hour in real life.
someone is custom building their own offroad viper , superfast matt
you should get in touch
I don’t think Google owns the cars.
I think they are just the service company that provided the stitching equipment used, and the imagery output on their site
The funny part to me was that the Google maps car didnt know the bridge was out!!! 😂😂
Florida man at it again. Everything immediately makes perfect sense.
I got on street view waving to the Google car once years ago. Went on maps and you could see me for years. Pretty cool.
@1:17 Street view caught a college friend, working under his pickup truck in his driveway. His legs were sticking out from under the truck.
My horse ran out to the wire fence for a selfie 🐴😁 when they came by.✌️
I can't wait to see those images come out on street view.