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Some of you have surely used Google Maps, particularly Street View, to either productively and inquisitively look at local metro street scenes — or perhaps wasted some time searching for amusing photos captured by a 360 degree vision camera.

But until now, I haven’t actually seen one of these production cars in action, much less sitting still. Initially, in NYC, Google utilized Immersive Media to capture Gotham City’s street level action; The Dodeca 2360 11-lens camera (MSRP $45,000) was first used to record over 50,000 miles in over a dozen cities across the U.S. to upload into Google Maps.

However, it appears that either Immersive is utilizing different camera systems now, or Google has moved onto to different photographic vendors. Who knows, with as much money that Google has they may have very well invented their own.

Yesterday I happened to spot two idle Google Maps cars parked on Folsom.