• Google Street View lets you see a 360-degree view of your destination before you get there.
• Google Street View is accessible through Google Maps on both desktop and mobile.
• You can also use Live View in Google Maps for a live view of your route and directions in real time.

Knowing the names of streets and general directions when you're going somewhere new is extremely helpful. But being able to see your destination in advance, and know what the area around it looks like, is even better. 

Using the iconic Google Street View cars, which feature cameras mounted on the roofs, Google regularly collects millions of images of streets worldwide to provide users with 360-degree views of locations.

Google officially discontinued its standalone Street View app in 2023, but the Street View feature itself is still accessible via Google Maps.

You can use Street View for a variety of purposes: You can look up exactly what a location looks like before you get there, scout out the layout of entire blocks at a time, or even see your own house.

Here's everything you need to know about how to use Street View:

What is the difference between Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Street View?

Street View is just one of several navigation tools and mapping softwares by Google — all of which can assist you in finding or viewing locations in different ways.

Google Maps is your standard navigation software, created to provide detailed directions and various routes between locations. Google Street View is a component of Google Maps.

Google Earth, however, uses satellite images and topographical data to help you explore locations from above. Google Earth operates on a larger scale than Google Maps and takes you on an immersive virtual tour.

You can use all three tools to get three vastly different perspectives on a location. For instance, if you're planning a trip to see Ireland's Cliffs of Moher, you might want to use Google Earth to get a preview of the iconic, rugged sea cliffs and check out the surrounding landscape. You might then use Google Maps to plot a route from your bed and breakfast to the Cliffs of Moher car park, and you could then use Street View to do a virtual walk-through of the cliffside paths.

But maybe all these maps still aren't quite visual enough for you. In that case, search up the cliffs on Google Images to see stunning photographs of the area.

Google's mapping tools also don't end with Google Maps and Google Earth. Google also owns Waze, a navigation and traffic app geared specifically to drivers, which offers realtime updates on traffic conditions and route hazards.

Like Google Maps, Waze is a GPS tool that can get you from A to B and offer multiple routes. But unlike Google Maps, Waze has a community-based component, allowing drivers to report things like bad weather, accidents, and other traffic conditions to alert other drivers.

How to use Google Street View on desktop

Google Maps works on both your desktop, and mobile device. Here's how to get to Street View on your computer:

1. Go to maps.google.com.
2. Tap the search bar in the top-left corner of the screen and enter the name or address of the place that you want to view.

3. Click and hold the person icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen and drag it to the spot you want to view (as you move the cursor over the map, the streets will be highlighted in blue — make sure that you place the icon onto one of those, otherwise you won't be able to see the street view).

   

4. Release the cursor.
5. To navigate in street view, click and drag to change the camera angle or tap a location down the street to move closer to it.
6. You can also use the curved arrows around the compass icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen to change the direction of the camera.

The images on Google Street View are updated once every one to three years, but well-known places are updated more frequently. You can check the date of a Street View image by looking for the date in the black box at the top left-hand side of the screen, or on the bar on the bottom right-hand side of the screen. 

How to get street view on Google Maps on your phone

If you're on the go and need to use your mobile device to check out your destination, here's what you'll need to do:

1. Open the Google Maps app on your iPhone or Android.
2. Tap the search bar and enter the name or address of the place you want to view.
3. Tap the small photo box on the left side of the screen.

To navigate on the mobile version of Google Street View, drag one finger across the screen, starting on the side you want to go toward and ending on the opposite side of the screen.

Can I blur my house on Google Maps?

Google Street View may potentially reveal more than you'd like — maybe your house has distinctive features, or there's a large window with a view directly into your home.

If you have concerns about privacy or safety, there is a solution. You can request Google to blur your house permanently, leaving behind only a vague outline of the building.

Here's how to do it: 

1. Go to Google Maps and enter your home address.
2. Enter into Street View mode by dragging the small yellow human-shaped icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen onto the map in front of your house.
3. With your house in view, click "Report a problem" in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
4. Center the red box on your home, and select "My home" in the "Request blurring" field.

Once someone has requested to blur your house, it is important to note it is blurred permanently. Google does not offer to reverse this request. 

How can I see a live Street View in real time?

Live View in Google Maps is a unique tool that uses augmented reality to provide directions. Live View uses your phone's camera to display your current surroundings in the viewfinder, then projects directions, arrows, and other navigation cues onto the screen to show you where to go.

Live View is still a fairly limited feature — it isn't available in every country or on every type of mobile device, and it only works in areas that are already well-mapped by Street View.

Here's how to use it on Android or Apple devices:

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app.
2. In the search bar, enter a destination and select Walking. 
3. Once your destination is located on the map, tap the Live View icon.

4. Once the Live View is on, point your phone's camera around to determine your exact location.
5. Follow the arrows, and once Google Maps has recognized your location you can start your journey.

Google also offers a similar augmented-reality feature called Lens in Maps, which uses Google Lens technology to suggest helpful locations nearby, like coffee shops, ATM machines, parks, transit hubs, and more.

Here's how to use Lens in Maps:

1. Open the Google Maps app
2. Tap the Lens icon in the search bar, and lift your phone

• Elon Musk and Donald Trump are discussing a role for him in the White House, the WSJ reported.
• Musk and Trump have had a hot-and-cold relationship over the years.
• In March, Musk said the US is need of a "red wave" to save it.

There's a chance Elon Musk could be spending more time at the White House if Donald Trump ends up back in office.

The pair have been discussing a potential advisory role for Musk if Trump wins the 2024 election, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Although the title and details of the role are unclear, people familiar with the topic told the Journal that discussions involved ways to give Musk input on border security and economic policies. Still, the position hasn't been fully discussed and might not happen, they said.

Despite his differences with Trump over the past two years, Musk is reportedly privately campaigning for his wealthy peers to pull back their support for Joe Biden, the Journal said. Musk is also working with billionaire investor Nelson Peltz on a plan to invest in a project to prevent voter fraud using data to make sure votes are fairly counted, it said.

Musk has been open about his views on the Biden administration in recent months. In March, the Tesla CEO said on X that he used to vote "100% Dem until a few years ago."

"Now, I think we need a red wave or America is toast," Musk added in the post.

He said in the same month that he has no plans to donate to Trump or Biden.

But before that, his biographer Walter Isaacson wrote in "Elon Musk" that the billionaire had said that "Trump might be one of the world's best bullshitters."

Musk has not committed to endorsing Trump, the Journal said.

Still, according to the Journal, Musk and Trump have been dining together and discussing issues such as immigration, tech, and the Space Force.

"President Trump will be the only voice of what role an individual plays in his presidency," Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, told the Journal.

Elon Musk didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

• "There could be hell to pay" if private credit markets wobble, Jamie Dimon said.
• He warned that there are bad actors in the industry, and they'll likely be the source of any issues.
• "I don't think it's systemic, but I do expect there to be problems."

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said private credit could spark turmoil if the opaque sector of financial markets weakens. 

"There could be hell to pay," he said at a conference on Wednesday. "I've seen a couple of these deals that were rated by a rating agency and, I have to confess, it shocked me what they got rated. So, it reminds me a little bit of mortgages."

The private credit market—a corner of finance dominated by non-bank lenders who originate loans to private businesses—has grown rapidly in recent years. Although returns on these assets have increasingly outpaced the S&P 500 since the early 2000s, risks in the industry are not well known, the IMF noted in April.

In Dimon's view, some players in the space are "brilliant," and the sector succeeds in filling financial needs for firms that may be overlooked by larger institutions. 

"But not all the people doing it are good," Dimon said. "And the problems in financial markets are often caused by the 'not good one,' the people that make the mistakes."

Issues could start to crop up as retail investors are increasingly exposed to the space and come face-to-face with private-credit assets that might be illiquid, improperly marked, or not stress-tested, he said.

"Retail clients tend to circle the block and call their senators and congressmen," Dimon said, and later concluded: "

At the same time, JPMorgan is looking to step deeper into this space itself, with the bank looking to acquire a private-credit firm to grow its footprint in the sector, Bloomberg reported. According to the outlet, the lender has also put aside $10 billion for direct lending.

• I tried every burger on In-N-Out's main and "not-so-secret" menu.
• My least favorite burger I tried from In-N-Out was the plain hamburger.
• The best fast-food burger was the flavorful, well-priced Double-Double "animal-style" burger.

On a trip to Austin, I ordered every burger at In-N-Out, a Californian fast-food chain famous for its well-priced, oversized burgers.

Harry and Esther Snyder opened their first In-N-Out burger stand in 1948. In 1963, In-N-Out began serving its famous Double-Double burger and added "animal-style" burgers to its menu two years later. The chain, which now operates in eight states, opened its 400th restaurant in 2023 and is a favorite of celebrities and world-class chefs alike. 

In-N-Out is helmed by Lynsi Snyder, the only granddaughter of Harry and Esther Snyder. At 42, she is one of the youngest billionaires in the US, with a net worth of $6.7 billion. The company has evolved under her leadership, but the menu at In-N-Out has remained largely unchanged over the decades. 

Here's every burger at In-N-Out, ranked from worst to best.

My least favorite burger at In-N-Out was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the plain hamburger.

It came on a warm toasty bun and cost $3.15. 

I knew it would probably be underwhelming compared to the menu's other burgers, which come with more exciting toppings.

I turned out to be correct.

The beef patty was crispy and had a nice flavor to it.

However, it definitely needed some kind of topping. This order is really only for children or people with picky palettes. 

The cheeseburger was slightly better.

It cost just $3.50, though I didn't think it was necessarily worth it considering you can get a much larger, more flavorful burger for a slightly higher price.

It comes with one beef patty and a slice of American cheese.

The bun was toasted and the melted cheese covered the entirety of the crispy beef.

However, despite being slightly better than the hamburger, I probably wouldn't order this again.

If I did, I would definitely ask for extra toppings like ketchup, mustard, onions, or pickles.

The 4×4 is the largest burger at In-N-Out and is part of the chain's "not-so-secret" menu.

Also called the "Quad Quad," the mammoth burger comes with four beef patties, four cheese slices, lettuce, tomato, spread, and the option to add onions. It costs $9.49, making it the most expensive burger I tried.

The ginormous burger was difficult to hold in one hand, let alone bite into.

Looking at it, it was just so much meat. You would have to have a really big appetite to get through the entire thing, I would imagine.

All of the elements of the burger were delicious, from the juicy beef patties to the layers of cheese and fresh lettuce and tomato.

However, it was much too large for me. I definitely couldn't, and wouldn't, eat this if not for this taste test. It was over-the-top filling, and the vegetables did little to balance out how much meat and cheese were in the burger. The buns also began to fall apart while I was eating it.

I also tried a Double-Double protein-style.

As part of the chain's "not-so-secret" menu, you can order any burger wrapped in lettuce rather than buns. The burger cost $4.50.

I was surprised that swapping out the buns for lettuce didn't affect the price at all. I would have thought it would be cheaper to get lettuce buns, but I guess that's not necessarily the case.

It came with two burger patties, cheese, tomato, lettuce, and spread.

I'm not usually a fan of lettuce-wrapped burgers, but I wanted to give this celebrity-favorite order a shot. Kylie Jenner reportedly orders her burger this way when she stops by In-N-Out.

I felt there was way too much lettuce on this lower-carb burger.

I thought the lettuce made the burger so watery that I couldn't really enjoy the other ingredients. It was definitely lighter than the other burgers I tried, but when I'm going to a fast-food joint, that's not usually my goal. 

It wasn't a "lettuce bun" — it was just lettuce.

The Double Meat burger, also on the chain's secret menu, is basically a Double-Double without the cheese.

It cost $4.90 at the In-N-Out I went to. 

It comes with two beef patties, lettuce, tomato, spread, and optional onions.

There was a generous serving of each of the ingredients, from the lettuce and tomato to the thick layer of spread on the bottom of the burger.

The absence of cheese allowed the other ingredients to really come through.

It tasted a little lighter and was definitely more manageable to eat than some of the other large burgers. The lettuce and tomato tasted really fresh, while the spread added enough flavor to make up for the lack of cheese.

This burger really impressed me, even though I do personally prefer cheese on my burgers.

My third-favorite burger on In-N-Out's menu was the 3×3.

It comes with lettuce, tomato, spread, and the option to add onions, plus three burger patties and three slices of cheese. It cost $7.30, which I thought was a pretty fair price for the huge burger I received. 

This burger was much easier to eat than the 4×4.

Each beef patty was coated in tangy, gooey cheese. It had a perfect amount of crisp lettuce and tomato to balance out the meat and cheese.

The burger was easier to hold and eat than the larger version.

The buns held up better. Overall, despite the generous portion of meat and cheese, it tasted balanced.

I also ordered a plain Double-Double, which is In-N-Out's version of a double cheeseburger.

Most Double-Double burgers come with lettuce, tomato, onions, and spread. Since I would also be trying another Double-Double with those ingredients, I ordered it without lettuce and tomato. I ordered it with just onions, pickles, and spread. The burger cost $4.90.

 

The patties were incredibly juicy but had a nice char on the outside.

The cheese slices were perfectly melted and coated each part of the burger, something I couldn't say about any other burger I tried.

The bun was perfectly soft and held everything together perfectly, while the special spread had my mouth watering for another bite.

The burger was beyond flavorful, the perfect size, and shockingly inexpensive.

It was by far the best double cheeseburger I've ever had from a fast-food restaurant.

By far, the best burger I tried at In-N-Out was the Double-Double "animal-style."

The Double-Double usually comes with two beef patties, two slices of American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, and spread, but animal-style is slightly different.

However, it doesn't affect the price. My burger cost only $4.90, which I thought was a really good deal for the huge, flavorful burger I received.

If you order your burger animal-style, the beef patties will be cooked in mustard and come with all the aforementioned toppings, plus pickles and extra spread, and the onions will be grilled.

The burger was not only picture-perfect, but it was probably the best fast-food burger I've ever eaten.

The pickles were tart and crunchy, the beef patties were over-the-top juicy and flavorful, and the cheese-to-meat ratio was perfect.

The onions came through and added a lot of flavor and I really liked the spread. It was super savory and unlike any other sauce I've had on a fast-food burger before.

The burger itself was also very large, and all the ingredients tasted fresh. The cheese was also flavorful and thick. For less than $5, this was my favorite burger, by far.

After eating my way through the entire In-N-Out burger menu, I could really understand why the fast-food chain has such a cult following.

None of the burgers I tried were bad — some just had more exciting elements than others.

The next time I'm at In-N-Out, I'll definitely order a Double-Double animal style, but I wouldn't hesitate to order a double cheeseburger, 3×3, or even the Double Meat again.

• Donald Trump invoked Mother Teresa as jurors began deliberations in his Manhattan criminal trial.
• "Mother Teresa could not beat these charges," the former president said.
• Trump is accused of helping falsify business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star.

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the Manhattan District Attorney's case that he falsified business records to cover up hush money payments to a porn star is so "rigged" that not even one of the most famous modern Catholic saints could not get acquitted.

"I would say listening to the charges from the judge, who, as you know is very conflicted and corrupt, because of the confliction, very, very corrupt, Mother Teresa could not beat these charges," Trump said flanked by his attorney Todd Blanche.

Trump was addressing reporters just moments after Justice Juan Merchan gave his final instructions to the 12 jurors who will now weigh whether to render a verdict that could make Trump the first former president to become a felon.

The former president has repeatedly attacked Merchan over the justice's $15 donation to Biden's 2020 campaign. Trump also criticized Merchan's daughter to the point that the justice added her to the gag order that prohibits Trump from criticizing witnesses or the jury during the trial.

The crux of the criminal case is that in the wake of the publication of the Access Hollywood tape, Trump's presidential campaign was extremely worried about additional stories about the then 2016-Republican presidential nominee's treatment of women. On the 2005 tape, Trump told Billy Bush, then a co-host of Access Hollywood, that he could "grab" women "by the pussy" because he was a star.

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was considering going public with her claim that she had sex with Trump after they met at a 2006 celebrity golf tournament. Michael Cohen, a Trump Organization attorney, testified that he orchestrated a $130,000 payment to Daniels to keep her quiet after the tape's publication and before the 2016 election. Cohen, Trump's former self-described "fixer," also claimed that Trump was aware that he was really paying Cohen back for the hush money when the then-president cut him a series of checks after the 2016 election for legal expenses.

Pope Francis formally canonized Mother Teresa as a saint in September 2016. He praised the Calcutta nun as an "emblematic figure of womanhood and consecrated life."

"May she be your model of holiness," Francis said, addressing volunteers around the world who seek to carry on Teresa's spirit of charitable giving.

Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She has faced criticism over the true intentions of her missionary work.

• Dick's Sporting Goods has something unusual for a retailer: an app to manage youth team sports.
• The service now boasts 5 million users who spend a half hour per day on the platform.
• Dick's says the business will bring in $100 million this year, in addition to driving retail sales.

Dick's Sporting Goods has long offered youth athletes and coaches a number of spiral-bound ways to organize teams and keep score.

But in recent years, the company has been investing in something unusual for a retailer: an AI-powered app to manage youth team sports, with livestream video and auto-generated highlight reels from games.

Now, the aptly named Game Changer platform is driving real revenue with some notable engagement, Dick's CEO Lauren Hobart told investors on the company's earnings call Wednesday.

Hobart said last quarter saw 5 million users who spent a half hour per day on the platform, and Game Changer says it supports over a million teams and over 7 million games per year.

Dick's CFO Navdeep Gupta said the business segment will bring in a highly profitable $100 million in revenue this year, but the real kicker for the company is the lift for retail sales online and in-store, especially among loyalty program members.

"Athletes that are both GameChanger user and a Scorecard user have 2x the revenue profile for just a Scorecard user," the CFO said. "That indicates also that the level of engagement that we have with these multi-channel athletes is actually really, really exciting and interesting to us as we look to the long-term opportunity for this platform."

Initially developed for so-called "diamond sports" like baseball and softball, Game Changer has been rolling out new AI-powered features to better support sports like basketball, soccer, volleyball, and more, bringing a kind of ESPN+ viewing experience to far-flung family members and fans.

• PwC has a new deal with OpenAI as the largest user and first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise.
• The deal comes amid surging interest in GenAI, with 950 of its top 1,000 clients engaging with it.
• "Your business strategy and your AI strategy in this world need to be intertwined," said a PwC exec. 

Big Four consultancy firm PwC has a new deal with OpenAI to help its staff and clients leverage generative AI.

The companies announced Wednesday that PwC will now be the largest user of ChatGPT Enterprise, the most powerful tier of ChatGPT geared toward businesses. According to OpenAI, it offers higher-grade security, longer context windows to process longer inputs, and more advanced data analysis abilities than the consumer version of ChatGPT. PwC will deploy the product across 100,000 of its employees between the US and UK.

As part of the deal, PwC will also be the first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise — meaning that clients can now purchase the product from both OpenAI and PwC.

The deal formalizes the surging interest in generative AI that PwC has seen from clients over the past year. Around 950 of the firm's top 1,000 consulting clients in the US are actively engaged with generative AI, and many more are discussing the use and implications of the technology, according to its press release.

PwC announced last year that it would invest a billion dollars in generative AI over the coming three years to provide AI training and tooling for its employees — like its conversational AI assistant ChatPwC. Since then the firm has documented over 3,000 use cases for the technology, Joe Atkinson, PwC's US Chief Products & Technology Officer, told Business Insider. "We were our first client, so we would work through our client zero strategy," Atkinson said. Under the new deal, "we're bringing all of those capabilities and skills to our clients who are really, really eager to take their own strategy from where they are today to where they think they can be with generative AI."

He said the biggest questions the firm gets from clients are about the risks and biases of AI models and the accuracy of their outputs. So, it's clear they still need human oversight.

But Atkinson contends that businesses need to embrace AI if they want to survive.

"One of the things we keep telling our clients is, look, your business strategy and your AI strategy in this world need to be intertwined. That understanding, I think is really starting to make itself known in the C-suite and the boardrooms," he said.

• North Korea floated hundreds of balloons filled with garbage and feces across the border south.
• North Korea had vowed retaliation after South Korean activists sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets.
• The North's balloons contained fertilizer, NBC reports, but not human excrement.

North Korea floated balloons carrying garbage and feces into South Korea last week, officials in Seoul said.

The obnoxious floating orbs were an apparent retaliation against South Korean activists who'd previously flown anti-Pyongyang leaflets and USB drives containing K-pop music over the border.

Days before the balloons landed in South Korea, a North Korean official vowed retaliation via "paper and filth," The Wall Street Journal reported.

South Korea's military discovered the balloons near the border Tuesday and warned residents to stay inside, according to the Journal.

Roughly 260 balloons were ultimately found — the largest number ever sent, the Yonhap News Agency reports, citing South Korea's joint chiefs of staff. The countries have been feuding with messages sent back and forth via balloons for years.

North Korea's latest barrage of balloons contained plastic, batteries, parts of shoes, and manure, a JCS official said, according to Yonhap.

South Korea's defense ministry confirmed the presence of fertilizer to NBC, not human excrement — though the outlet noted that human feces was sent by North Korea in 2016.

The latest skirmish comes as North Korea on Monday failed to launch a spy satellite, which exploded midair.

South Korean media reported Russia was helping with the effort, with a number of its technicians entering the country before the botched launch.

• Another Tesla owner reported an injury from the Cybertruck's sharp edges.
• The owner said he ended up in the hospital after accidentally slicing his wrist during delivery.
• Previous Cybertruck injuries involved the sharp frunk and door edges. 

A Cybertruck delivery ended up a bit bloody, a Tesla owner wrote in a forum post.

While there's been past coverage of Cybertruck-related injuries from people testing out the frunk's sensor on their fingers (don't do that), or the guy who needed stitches after clipping his leg on the door's edge when exiting, this Cybertruck owner wrote that they accidentally sliced their wrist while inspecting their brand-new vehicle upon arrival.

The Tesla owner posted on the Cybertruck Owner's Club that he had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of his vehicle. But when it finally arrived, the Cybertruck was in "sloppy, sloppy condition at delivery," with a "disastrously dirty" windshield with a smeary film over it, and a hood covered in rust spots, he wrote.

The owner said that he noted several issues with the vehicle: an overspray on the body panels that he couldn't easily wipe off, a loose rubber seal along the tonneau cover, and a large upper panel on the driver's side in the bed that flew off while driving on a main road. He posted photos of some of the issues.

But they weren't enough to deter the Tesla owner from enjoying his new ride.

"Otherwise, it's great," he wrote on the forum. "Heck, it's great even with these issues. The tires and wheel look GREAT in person."

But things took a turn when the owner walked around to inspect the truck and noticed a small pit or divot on the tailgate, he wrote. When he tried to rub the spot with his thumb to see if it was a divot or stray adhesive, he ended up slicing his wrist, the owner said.

"I jerked my arm back and the employees chuckled jokingly saying this thing can be dangerous," he wrote on the forum. "I, too, thought it was a little slice like a paper cut…Until the blood started pouring."

The owner said there was "a lot of blood," and uploaded a graphic image of injury. We'll spare you the details — but it's safe to say he wasn't exaggerating: the cut looks pretty deep.

He said the two employees scrambled to find something to stop the bleeding, and he was eventually able to apply a bandage. He still managed to wash off his wrist, wrap it up, and complete delivery, the owner wrote.

Several hours later, he said that he assumed the gash had closed up and he could take off the bandage.

"I unwrapped my wrist and BOOM – spurts of blood all over the kitchen island…" the owner wrote on the forum. "Which leaves me here, at the ER."

The owner also posted a photo of a hospital waiting room. He did not return a request for comment ahead of publication.

The incident is one of the latest reported injuries tied to the sharp edges of the Cybertruck's angular stainless steel design. Some, however, have been seemingly playing with fire. Multiple owners reported hurting themselves after purposely closing the vehicle's frunk on their body parts to test out the hood's safety sensor, with one user ending up with a deep cut that appeared to extend down to his tendon.

Another owner had to get stitches after he accidentally cut his leg on the edge of the door while exiting his vehicle, according to a post on the Cybertruck forum. Yet another forum user commented on the post saying he had also cut himself accidentally while washing his car.

Tesla warns in its manual to "use caution around the panel edges on Cybertruck, including the doors, powered frunk, tailgate, and surrounding panels." The manual also states neglecting to follow proper procedures can result in injury.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment about the driver's account.

• Trump's 7-man, 5-woman jury will have only the verdict sheet with them in the deliberations room.
• They must check the boxes for "Not Guilty" or "Guilty" on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
• They will not have a copy of the judge's hour-long, spoken instructions on the underlying law.

After four weeks of testimony by nearly two dozen witnesses — plus hundreds of exhibits and eight hours of closing arguments — the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president now has a deliberating jury.

Donald Trump's potential criminal record rests in the hands of seven men and five women, a majority white-collar group that includes three men with finance backgrounds and two men who are lawyers.

Jurors listened intently for just over an hour Wednesday morning — with several taking brief notes — as the judge described the law to them before sending them to a deliberations room adjacent to the courtroom.

Jurors had to surrender their cellphones to the safe-keeping of court officers before beginning their work.

"I'm going to ask you to step out now and begin your deliberations," New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan told the jury as parting words at 11:28 a.m.

Two jurors — a man who works as a security engineer, and a woman who works as a software engineer — volunteered to learn to operate the laptop on which they can view trial exhibits while deliberating.

The laptop contains no other data and is not connected to the internet.

Finally, six alternates — five women and one man — were asked to wait in a separate room. "There might be a need for you at some point in the deliberations," the judge told them.

Here are the documents that will guide the Trump jury's decisions in New York's historic hush-money trial.

The verdict sheet

The verdict sheet is the only document the jurors will have with them in the deliberations room. It instructs them to check "Not Guilty" or "Guilty" on each of 34 counts of a single charge: falsifying business records in the first degree.

The court staff has promised to give us a blank copy of the verdict sheet. We'll update this post once we have it.

Each of the 34 counts pertains to a different invoice, check, and ledger entry that Trump allegedly caused to be entered into the Trump Organization's business records throughout 2017, his first year in office.

Falsifying business records in the first degree

Prosecutors say Trump caused 34 business records to be falsified as part of an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.

The records, prosecutors say, disguised the true purpose of $130,000 in "legal fee" reimbursements paid throughout 2017 to Trump's then-lawyer, Michael Cohen.

In reality, Cohen was being secretly reimbursed for his hush-money outlay to Stormy Daniels, a payment that silenced the porn star just 11 days before the 2016 election, prosecutors allege.

Merchan read to jurors from the standard jury charge for felony falsifying business records.

The jury charge

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan spent more than an hour Wednesday morning speaking to jurors, slowly describing to them the laws that will underpin their verdict.

Read the judge's "jury charge" here.

During the charge, Merchan warned jurors to be on guard against any "implicit bias" about groups of people and the defendant himself.

They were also reminded that prosecutors bear the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and that they must consider only testimony, exhibits, and attorney stipulations in reaching a verdict — not the potential for punishment.

"The defendant is not required to prove that he is not guilty," he reminded jurors. "The defendant is not required to prove or disprove anything."

Finally, the jurors were instructed on the underlying laws, and their definitions.

Key among these laws is section 17-152 of the New York election law. Business Insider described this important but rarely-used state election-conspiracy law last month.

To convict, jurors must find that Trump falsified business records to conceal an attempt to violate 17-152.

And to find that Trump attempted to violate 17-152, jurors must find he attempted to commit any of three additional underlying offenses. These are the federal election campaign-finance law, an additional New York business-falsification law, and a violation of tax laws on either a city, state or federal level.

The judge told jurors that they could not take a written copy of the charge with them to the deliberations room.

"You may however request I read them back to you in whole, or in part, as many times as you wish," he told them. "And I will be happy to do so."

The defense lawyers, prosecutors, and Trump himself were instructed not to leave the courthouse during deliberations.

Trump sat still during the judge's instructions, leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes, leaving his hands in his lap. On at least one occasion, he appeared to stretch in his seat.

Once Merchan sent the jurors to the deliberation room, Trump appeared relaxed — even jovial — joking with his son, Donald Trump, Jr., as he left the courtroom to await his verdict.

Once in the hallway, he huddled with his aides outside the courtroom for three minutes before walking up to the cameras and complaining about the judge.