Google hits a baby deer

January 30, 2009 by Baby Chums
Filed under: Weird

Google’s, “Street View” car kills a baby deer.

There’s lots of controversy about Google’s street photography as it builds up photography for its Google Maps ’street view’.

The Google Lat Long blog gives their take on the incident,

“The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived. The police explained to our driver that, sadly, this was not an uncommon occurrence in the region - the New York State Department of Transportation estimates that 60,000-70,000 deer collisions happen per year in New York alone — and no police report needed to be filed.”

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/01/oh-deer-street-view-and-road-safety.html

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Google hits a baby deer on Five Points Road near Rush, New York.

In upstate New York, a street view car hits a baby deer on Five Points Road and then recorded the whole thing on Google Maps. The image went largely ignored until the, “Daily What” blog posted about the incident, sending floods of traffic, subsequently five street-level images have been removed.