This just in from Google:
"Just saw your piece on the GPS Street View car in Germany and wanted to let you know it was a hoax :-) . Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is an art organization which recently used a fake Street View car as an art project in Berlin and claimed to have put a GPS tracking device on in to track its route. This car was not an official Google car, as we are currently not driving through Germany as there are not optimal weather and light conditions at this time of year. As soon as we'll restart driving you can find the driving schedule at http://www.google.de/streetview."
I blame myself for not joining the dots far enough to realise that February in Europe, with its short days and low sun angles, wasn't going to be prime Street View-shooting material. And, of course, for not checking. Apologies. Oh, those art pranksters. Can we ever get enough of them?
