Google Streetview car goes offsiding!

[Horse]

Hope this works . . . Click between them or use the forward/backwards arrows in one.

http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?q ... 8,,0,13.14

http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?q ... 8,,0,13.14

[Silk]

Hope this works . . . Click between them or use the forward/backwards arrows in one.

http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?q ... 8,,0,13.14

http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?q ... 8,,0,13.14

You obviously have too much time on your hands.

If he/she was off-siding for view, it should have been given up sooner, IMO. Not that I'm a big fan of off-siding in these circumstances - too much risk for too little gain.

Not much to do on a Sunday afternoon this way either.

[martine]

Love it...it would be rude not to wouldn't it? I wonder who was driving?

[Kimosabe]

When I see the slightest hint of an exit, overtaking and offsiding are no longer part of the plan. It seems to me that the Google car offsided unnecessarily and across a drive exit/entrance (the one with the loose surface just around the bend).

I think that if I had offsided where the Google car did, that I would probably have pulled over before the drive. I need to check that on the map view of the bend but I probably wouldn't have offsided that bend anyway as it's not that sharp, there is plenty of view even with mid summer foliage and I couldn't see any advantage from doing so.

I was looking at some links posted here about the Westbound Shoreham bypass tunnel approach, regarding accidents that occur just before the tunnel and found a few shots of a rear seat passenger in a passing black car, making gestures at the Google camera. Perhaps the Google car driver who offsided, was expecting to find the same people throwing moonies at him from somewhere beyond the unextended limit point? It must get wearing having folk doing stuff like that while you're sauntering around the NSLs, while at 'work'.

[fungus]

I like it. I agree with Silk that he held off side too long though.

[Horse]

Errr . . . Perhaps the joke's on me, and you're all winding me up, but they didn't actually offside, it's just where two (Ebound and Wbound) sequences join.

[martine]

I did wonder but then it looked quite convincing to me...nice one.

[Custom24]

You can tell because the rear antenna of the car is visible in one shot, and not the other.

[7db]

Errr . . . Perhaps the joke's on me, and you're all winding me up, but they didn't actually offside, it's just where two (Ebound and Wbound) sequences join.

Offsiding in reverse gear, perhaps?

[martine]

Offsiding in reverse gear, perhaps?

mmmm...is that a challenge?