Google’s Road View mapping actually is a contemporary surprise, permitting us to view environments on the opposite facet of the nation, and even the opposite facet of the world, all from the consolation of our laptop computer or cellphone. And due to the loopy exploits of one of many firm’s mapping drivers, we would quickly have the ability to think about simply what it could be wish to crash an outdated Honda HR-V right into a creek in Indiana.

The second-gen HR-V met its watery finish after the motive force grew to become embroiled in a high-speed chase with officers from Indiana’s Middletown Police Division. Cops had noticed the Honda flying previous different vehicles shut to a college, estimated that the camera-toting HR-V was touring at over 100 mph (160 km/h), and started to chase it down.

Police caught up with the automotive, however the driver continued to hurry for a number of miles, and though he did finally decelerate, he ran a pink gentle earlier than driving by a yard to keep away from a closed bridge, which is the place he misplaced management. The motive force bellyflopped the HR-V right into a creek, its digital camera gear and “Google Road View” script on the rear clear for all of the native wildlife to see.

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A similar Honda HR-V decked out for mapping duties (credit: Google)

It’s not clear why the motive force was rushing within the first place, however when he was hauled out of the Honda he instructed police he had been “scared to cease.” After a fast cease on the hospital he was arrested for Resisting Regulation Enforcement with a Car and despatched to the Henry County Jail, the place he stays in custody. That’s a felony cost so not one thing that may be simply brushed away, the Regulation and Crime web site reporting that it’s punishable by a jail time period of between six months and a pair of.5 years.

Google defined to SFGATE that the Road View drivers are contracted by an impartial firm, however stated it took the security of its Google Maps operation very critically and pledged to work “with the contracted firm and native authorities to make sure the correct actions are taken to handle this example.”

Sadly, the blurry chase photographs and remaining creek photographs are unlikely to ever make it to Road View. Right here’s hoping Google places collectively an album of outtakes for its twentieth anniversary in 2027.