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Google Street View Car Spotted In Essex — Did You See It In West Orange?
Did you see the souped-up Suburu cruising through town?
A Google Street View Car — with its panoramic cameras mounted on the roof — was cruising through downtown Verona, Caldwell and Fairfield on Wednesday.
The white Suburu hatchback with the Google Maps design was spotted on Park Place, near Prudential New Jersey Properties and the Lakeside Deli at 3:30 in the afternoon.
Google Maps' street view project launched in 2007 with SUVs equipped with cameras, lasers and a GPS device driving around collecting images around the United States, according to information available on Google.com.
The technology has gotten more sophisticated, to say the least.
Custom-designed street view cars, as well as snow mobiles, trikes, trolleys and trekkers, have been developed to collect 360-degree panoramic views of locations on all seven continents, according to Google.com.
The site confirmed street views are currently being taken around Essex County and more than a dozen other New Jersey counties.
On Verona Patch's Facebook Page, Viki Simone-Luzzi commented she saw the car in Fairfield on Friday, Sept. 27, and Anne Marie Comerford Ruggiero posted it was also spotted in the Caldwell this week on Bloomfield Avenue.
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