As gold leaves drifted to the ground in Central Park on Monday, a strange-looking vehicle joined the park’s stream of pedicabs, bicycles, baby carriages and skateboards. It was Google’s Trike, a panoramic camera system with nine lenses mounted on an oversize tricycle.
The Trike has been wheeling through hard-to-reach places across the globe, mapping them and then offering online Street View tours on Google Maps. Central Park had its star turn on Monday, when a team of cyclists began the job of maneuvering the Trike along 58 miles of paths.
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