Author Topic: How've they managed that then?  (Read 8668 times)

Kev_Mc

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How've they managed that then?
« on: 10 July 2011, 04:04:25 PM »
You might expect to catch a reflection of the Street View car in a window, but not this - Google Street View car

Just looking for something on the M1 near Alfreton and saw that. I'm assuming that is a Street View car - not sure why they'd be going in convoy - not seen this before anyway.

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Re: How've they managed that then?
« Reply #1 on: 10 July 2011, 04:53:46 PM »
Wouldn't like being in the outside lane with that thing a yard above rooflevel.

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Re: How've they managed that then?
« Reply #2 on: 10 July 2011, 06:56:53 PM »
Thats a really weird looking thing.

Maybe they had another vehicle to take over with the tasks and ran in shifts?

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Re: How've they managed that then?
« Reply #3 on: 10 July 2011, 09:43:38 PM »
They set off and meet up at the same places to stay overnight. I met a couple of guys in a car park last year and spoke to them for about 5 minutes, they'd been all over the UK and France, they were in a LHD car in the UK at the time. Basically they were agency workers who were getting paid what they thought was a fortune (about a tenner an hour) for simple driving jobs and they said it was far better than working in a factory/warehouse etc. They said the hardest bit of their job was changing the hard disk on the recorder every so often.

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Re: How've they managed that then?
« Reply #4 on: 04 August 2011, 11:48:05 PM »
I'm immortalised on Google streets.
I was just leaving the house by the back gates when a google streets car came down the alleyway between the houses. And I'm there for all to see.

And no, I don't live there anymore, and I don't have the car shown anymore, and the volvo T5 was owned by a mate who was driving us to the funeral we were setting out for.

Me Immortalised

Hair is longer too.

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Re: How've they managed that then?
« Reply #5 on: 11 August 2011, 11:34:59 AM »
Well who'd want to go down the M1 in a smart car with all that equipment on the roof?

A proper car for a proper job!!