Thousands of People Have Embarked on a Virtual Road Trip via Google Street View

Thousands of people have embarked on a virtual road trip via Google Street View

It's Friday afternoon and I'm listening to Bowdoin College's radio station, interspersed with ambient car honking noises. I am not in Maine. I am not in a

The job announcement on the internet was enigmatic. One driver was needed, that was what Joe McCallen knew. The mission? It was secret. When he climbed into the tuned Honda HR-V — equipped with a 3 meter turret on the roof, a custom screen covering the central console and a back seat full of computers — McCallen realized that he was helping Google map every corner of the world. In his Google Street View car, McCallen has traveled 160,000 kilomet…