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The joy of Microsoft's 'avoid ghetto' GPS patent
C/net ^ | January 7, 2012 | Chris Matyszczyk

Posted on 01/08/2012 5:02:08 PM PST by Daffynition

Pedestrians have sometimes felt neglected when it comes to GPS directions.

Indeed, not so long ago, one lady sued Google because the directions its map offered led her (she believed) to be struck by a car.

Now Microsoft has been granted a patent that is designed to make its maps more pedestrian-friendly.

Somehow, this patent has immediately been dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.cnet.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: commiegates; debtregime; effetepoosies; suburbsocialists
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To: Daffynition

It’s no longer amusing when some one makes a wrong turn and ends up dead, as happened to a young man in New Brunswick, NJ a few years ago.


21 posted on 01/09/2012 7:27:04 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

True. However, every single decision Obama makes is to harm America.


22 posted on 01/09/2012 7:32:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (Every single decision Obama makes is to harm America.)
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To: Daffynition
The Griswolds could have used this


23 posted on 01/09/2012 7:35:16 AM PST by dfwgator
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White Guy's Guide to Driving in L.A.:

Rule #1 - don't get off on any exit you have heard mentioned in a rap song (i.e Crenshaw, Inglewood, Compton, etc).

24 posted on 01/09/2012 7:39:38 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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25 posted on 01/09/2012 9:26:02 AM PST by Daffynition (*Pray for whatever passes for America these days* Amen. ~ ScottinVA)
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To: Daffynition

I sure could have used one of those when I strayed too far south from the Field Museum in Chicago. As I was looking for the Museum of Science & Industry, it dawned on me that the local inhabitants looked neither scientific nor industrious. I had a sudden yearning for the arsenal that I had left in Texas.


26 posted on 01/09/2012 2:42:17 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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