非洲撞驢肇逃?Google街景車喊冤
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Good Evening, and welcome to today's Otaku News
This is your five minute window to the Internet
Today we will investigate Google Street View cars
In Africa, did they really run over a donkey
and flee the scene?
Let's welcome media analyst Jing Ping
to talk with us today
Welcome, Jing Ping!
Good evening
Take a look
These photos have really been making
the rounds online
Did the Google car
hit this donkey?
It did, look at these photos
For the last two days
netizens have been up in arms.
But whatever the case
The donkey seems to have stood up on its own
and walked away unscathed
We don't know if it was maybe heat stroke
or dizziness
But the donkey suddenly collapsed again
For the Google Street View cars
this was a near miss
Aside from the Donkey pictures
Lets also look at
at these others
They're also taken by Google cars...
These are incredible
Take a look
Here in the first photo
You can see a big-rig that's tipped over
on the highway
Its amazing
that they got this on camera
In the second photo
We can see this small truck
there is nothing abnormal about it. Except...
it seems this little truck
hit all of the cars around it.
But, back to what we were saying
The Google Streen View car
It has a long pole on top
But there is nothing special about the car itself
It's just a normal sedan
But on the roof
Thre is a fixed rod
And on that, there is a shperical camera
Yeah, what is the ball for?
The camera in the middle
Is mainly meant to stay still
and take pictures in front of it
The other eight cameras
are able to freely adjust their angles
and provide the 360 degree view
that you see in Street View
when you are on Google
The up and down movement can provide
a nearly vertical, 290 degree field of vision
Therefore
when looking at Google Street View
the feeling that you get
is a lot like 3D.
Yeah, I know!
Also, on the front
there is a SICK laser can measure distance
It measures the width of the road
and the distance from the car to objects up ahead
This can help users online
Through Google Map or Google Earth
They can get clear information
on their position and coordinates
Actually, this Google Street View
was started on May 25, 2007
When it just started
the service was only available in Miami, San Francisco
Las Vegas
Denver, and other big cities.
In the begining there were only five
But, over time the service spread
and gained a global online following
The service even moved onto smart phones
Whether they use iPhone or Android
nearly everybody has Google Maps
or Google Earth
Countries around the world are using it!
In the last few years
we have seen Google's cars in Taiwan
They have been everywhere, from the streets...
...to the back alleys
Right now, there are five Google cars on the island
providing this service
As of today, across Taiwan's 14 counties
the cars have already covered about 6000 miles
This is equal to
driving around the island 100 times
or two and a half trips around the globe
So the next time you get to see
the Google car
might be on your street
or you might see it out on the road
They might even take your picture
Wow!
Today I'd like to thank Jing Ping
for coming to the studio today
and if you have any questions
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See you next time