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Did the Google Maps Car Hit a Deer?

John P.

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Ok. Don’t say that I never bring you anything completely useless, but absolutely fascinating nonetheless.

Someone sent me this image that was supposedly captured by a Google Maps vehicle when they were driving around taking the Street View images. As you can see, it’s of a deer that appears to have been hit.

Watch this little video to get the scoop on what is going on, and the image is below it. Ciao!

Here is the original image. I have no idea where it came from so if anyone figures out who found it please let me know:

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Comments

  1. nonameinc says

    the blurry thing and the yellow lines dont match up becouze the 360 carcamera cant look clearly trough a fishbowl downwards (else you would see the car )the hit was likely @ 30mph and the deer has not a chance when the driver didn’t care in the last picture you can see the shade off the camera pole on top off the car so it isnt photoshopped {[(x_x)]}

  2. tami says

    Something’s not right. The road name isn’t the same and I’ve gone up and down that road in google maps and didn’t see any deer.

  6. Ken@SEORaleigh says

    I used to live not to far from the area in question. Hard to determine if it is real but I can say the deer in that area are huge and plentiful. I have hit them with a vehicle before on that same road.

  7. Zig Baird says

    Seems quite fake to me. If you look at the dividing line to the right of the deer and then where it SHOULD intersect above the deer but doesn’t, it looks photoshopped. And the large blur around the deer’s head looks altered as well.

    However, if you’re going to hit a deer…what better place to do it then by gaining points on Five Points Rd!

    • Mg says

      Funny that that break should be exactly at that spot, but that’s because the google car takes composite pictures, using many cameras simultaneously. The break always appears in google maps street view pics. But it’s more obvious on the top of the image.