Ever seen a beetle with a gadget like this on top? According to the geeks at engadget, this what Google uses to capture their Street View images.

From Engadget.com-

“It looks like Immersive Media wanted to remove all doubt about what that street-traversing fleet of theirs really looks like. There's obviously more than one vehicle scanning in streets across the US, but now you know what to look out for -- and you little punks in the audience now realize just how tantalizing a target that little 11 camera orb on the roof really happens to be.”