For those who haven’t noticed, in the last week or so Google Maps has added a huge amount of Street View images. Almost the entire Reno-Carson-Tahoe area is now available, as well as a large majority of California (including fairly small towns like Truckee, Nevada City and Grass Valley).

All of the images appear to have been taken in the last year to year and a half, so I can only assume Google has had cars driving around for that long and just waited to make all the imagery available at once. To see the images, just find a place on Google Maps, zoom in fairly close and click the Street View button. Kind of scary/interesting all at the same time.