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Google maps reportedly won’t offer a ‘scenic route’ option because it’s racist to NOT trek through the hood…
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Posted on 06/19/2024 3:21:23 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

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Saves time as well.
Instead of lowlifes having to go to wealthier areas to make their living, or ginning up a 'protest' to enact a five finger discount shopping spree, just misdirect people into the hood.

A creative attorney could make trouble for Alphabet, Inc., if one of these mishaps are a result of misdirection.

But what this will eventually do is render Google unreliable and irrelevant, much like what Wikipedia has become (even 20 years ago, students were warned by professors to NOT cite Wikipedia as an information source for good reason).

1 posted on 06/19/2024 3:21:23 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

Made this mistake one time in LA on business. Blindly followed the directions.......straight into the hood. Car full of four white guys in shades and white shirts/ties. The technology said this was the quickest route, but was not recognizing there was a stop sign or light at every corner. Needless to say we were late for our appointment.


2 posted on 06/19/2024 3:29:19 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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Wife and we’re coming across the country years ago. Got rerouted through Gary Indiana due to an accident on the interstate 90. Good news it was bumper to bumper traffic through a real shady section.

Wife was scared and zipped up the windows.... We were in a jeep with a soft top. I was laughing, then she got it.


3 posted on 06/19/2024 3:43:38 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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...route traffic away from low-income areas...

How is that "racist"? Not all low-income people are black (to which the author is referring).

4 posted on 06/19/2024 3:53:23 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: Tench_Coxe
On a long road trip the simple rule of thumb is avoid large...and medium sized...cities like the plague.
5 posted on 06/19/2024 4:05:48 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Never Trust A Man Whose Uncle Was Eaten By Cannibals)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

You’ll have to do the hard work of rerouting yourself.

It is a good thing there are options.


6 posted on 06/19/2024 4:11:46 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

It’s common sense that one should NEVER travel through a democrat jungle infested with hungry pygmy cannibals. You must always be cognizant that your flesh could become food at any time when greeting the “natives”. This is what the big cities in America have become, thanks to the Rat voters. /spit


7 posted on 06/19/2024 4:20:18 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I can see it now, Google maps having a menu with in addition to “avoid bridges, tolls, ferries, and highways” there is “avoid bad neighborhoods”.


8 posted on 06/19/2024 4:23:41 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (A vote for Biden in 2024 is a vote for President Kamala Harris in 2025.)
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All directions should be thru the heart of the slums and where the crime rates are thru the roof! It is the only way liberals will get a true meaning of diversity since they would follow like the sheep they are. Conservatives know better than to venture into those areas. Sometime you have to give them exactly what they want with both barrels!


9 posted on 06/19/2024 4:26:04 AM PDT by Plumberman27
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“Not all low-income people are black”

‘poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’

-J. R. Biden


10 posted on 06/19/2024 4:27:07 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Google searches are irrelevant too. They are hampered.


11 posted on 06/19/2024 4:28:42 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

There was a program that was avoid crime zones. Based on national stastics.It was tanked because oddly enough it avoided black neighborhoods.


12 posted on 06/19/2024 4:31:42 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Gay State Conservative

Exactly, as radio/podcast personality, Joe Soucheray says:
“The closer you get to the country’s tallest buildings.”


13 posted on 06/19/2024 4:33:08 AM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Why not just offer two options:

The scenic route, where you won’t have to worry about meeting your maker during the trip.

The diversity route, where you will likely be making your last trip, but it will be filled with excitement. Also called the suicide route.


14 posted on 06/19/2024 4:37:47 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (The left is loathsome, beyond anything I could have believed.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8


15 posted on 06/19/2024 4:48:35 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Maybe people FROM the ‘hood might want to go the scenic route? Maybe it’s racist to exclude them from info on the scenic route and restrict them to going through the ‘hood that they see every day anyway?


16 posted on 06/19/2024 4:56:24 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

they are welcome to route traffic away from my neighborhood!

I would welcome it!


17 posted on 06/19/2024 5:02:25 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Tench_Coxe

18 posted on 06/19/2024 5:35:15 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

I’m old school- I’ll look at the online map and pick my own route. And I very reluctantly get off the main highway in Detroit. South of 8 mile anyways.

CC


19 posted on 06/19/2024 5:36:16 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: JudyinCanada

“Confirming ‘Virtue signaling’ route”


20 posted on 06/19/2024 5:42:36 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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