Google Maps sends 18 wheeler trucks , Greyhound buses, and .. up jeep roads..
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Trying to get to an airport once, I ended up in a cow pasture on the back side of of the runway. Fortunately I had 4 wheel drive.
“Google Maps sends 18 wheeler trucks , Greyhound buses, and .. up jeep roads..”
Some years ago when Google maps and in car GPS were somewhat new (at least to me), I was in very rural East Texas trying to get to a place that had a truck tailgate I needed. Google maps did send us to the right location via the shortest route. BUT a good part of the trip was on a muddy one lane dirt road, ditches were full of water, no place to turn around. I was in a two wheel drive 3/4 ton pickup with highway tires. I kept praying that we meet didn’t another oncoming vehicle. We didn’t but I am now very careful with that tech.
I saw that not long ago in Washington County AR. with a super long semi trailer truck. I know he was using a google road map because he turned onto a narrow two lane road, went through some of the tightest bends, then had to turn from the left lane to the right to get on the interstate.
Had he turned left at the first stop way back he could have gotten on the interstate within half a mile.
Darks knows a bit about that...
Google maps sent a few tour buses up our private road and then we put up a gate. That fixed the problem.
When I derided self driving vehicles here someone replied the tracking for them will be accurate down to millimeters.
My point had been driving in Michigan after an ice storm followed by a large snow storm we can barely see one partially cleared lane after the road crews worked (several hours into the day due to understaffing).
No one can see the right lane or right shoulder where some bus lanes and turn lanes begin and end or curve to approaches of restaurant lots. So how can the driverless car know not to drive at 50 mph and keep going?