Google Maps is, often, on crack
Sep. 27th, 2010 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
[First of several little posts about Coronation and reflections on the reign.]
The travel to Coronation was generally fun and stress-free, at least insofar as Friday rush-hour driving ever is. But it was a good reminder that Google Maps is an automated program, and sometimes shows poor judgement. To wit: regardless of the traffic on the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike, taking us through the middle of downtown Newark is probably *never* the right answer. This will remind me to look at the route it has laid out, and see what that actually *means*, before uncritically following it.
(On Sunday, we did the more sensible thing:
msmemory figured out the route herself, and we just used Google to keep an eye on the traffic...)
The travel to Coronation was generally fun and stress-free, at least insofar as Friday rush-hour driving ever is. But it was a good reminder that Google Maps is an automated program, and sometimes shows poor judgement. To wit: regardless of the traffic on the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike, taking us through the middle of downtown Newark is probably *never* the right answer. This will remind me to look at the route it has laid out, and see what that actually *means*, before uncritically following it.
(On Sunday, we did the more sensible thing:
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I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 03:02 pm (UTC)Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 03:06 pm (UTC)Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 03:26 pm (UTC)Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 04:00 pm (UTC)I love GMaps in many ways, especially for the real-time (and predictive) traffic info. But they need a lot of work on the routing algorithms -- they're still not as good as my little Garmin...
Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 04:10 pm (UTC)Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 04:45 pm (UTC)Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 06:06 pm (UTC)Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 07:13 pm (UTC)"I have altered your route. Pray I do not alter it further."
I could hear it getting more and more annoyed as we refused to take its suggestions. Then it let out "Turn left at the next intersection. Don't make me destroy you."
Re: I feel your pain...
Date: 2010-09-27 09:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-27 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-27 09:37 pm (UTC)