Me and a friend of mine was standing in front of her store and while we were shooting the breeze a Google Street View car drove by - just like the one shown below.

Google Street View Mapping Car

What is a Street View car? Google is taking 3D images of all the streets in cities across the nation to show what the locations of a precise point on a Google Map will look like. To capture these images, they drive a fleet of cars around the nation with a 3D camera on top and a GPS computer to plot what photo goes with which coordinate. Today, one whipped by us in downtown Winston-Salem. Here is an example of Google Maps with Street View enabled - (Bay Bridge, San Francisco). From there you can navigate around the map with the real 3D imaging on the screen.