It’s not about road dust, for the road is wet. Zoom in and see:
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Dust or Smoke?
Google driver photographed by Google cameras, driving Google car
Hands out of the car
Kids already know what the Google Maps Car is!
Quick, the Google car is coming…
Dog chases Google car
Dog chases Google Maps car
The day the RPC Londrina team meets the Google Car in the middle of a news report
T-pose in the smoke
Operation (or training) of firefighters and police being carried out and photographer taking photo of Google car
It just splashed through a huge puddle. your car would probably smoke a little too.
Exactly! As you well said, the Google vehicle must have gotten bogged down in the mud for a short time and in that, the driver must have tried to get out of this muddy puddle