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tinytyrant
just run that slinky grub of a V down like a dog.
mrdjnz
It’s weird how everyone refers to it a gps or a gps problem, when it’s a navigation software problem. Nothing to do with a bad gps signal!
J3su2
Driver of Google car went to pee
Fancypants9000
joe6paques
I get people driving up my driveway fairly often.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
The GPS knows, you've just GOT to see these garden gnomes!
UpvoteBuddyJesus
If I ask google to navigate me to home it will pick anything at random that has home in it. Many confused trips to Home Depot.
badairdayyay
This is t
DBrasington71
The real question is, did you turn in the driveway?
ACondomFullOfBees
My company ruined a Burger King on Google Maps and now has their own location there because they pick up and drop off people so frequently.
CatsOrExcited
Same trip, many times. Old TomTom (no internet). It was CLEARLY experimenting on me with random, useless, side trips like this.
loser9999
This is why it looks like adding lanes doesn't help. Traffic just takes a different path if it's clogged
Jaeger6Ix
Took me off the highway then right back onto it
GrandPubabofMoldistan
One time GPS sent us into a school parking lot and told us to literally drive through the school building to reach the road
IWouldLikeToGetOffThisRideNowPlease
"Adds two minutes" thanks Google maps. Very helpful
SUREEMANN
That’s Google telling you to make a quick poké stop dawg.
Skizzlesnap
Right after it drives you directly through the literal worst neighborhood in the city.
q2grapple
I think you’re just supposed to wave. They get so lonely
BargYartson
Maps is not on your phone to tell YOU where you are. It's there to tell THEM where you are.
westellar
I mean, clearly it's faster if you account for the curvature of the earth. /s
DoYouHaveYourTowel
GPS sends everyone 2 streets over from my house. It’s a huge problem for deliveries. I’ve complained to all the map services. 5 yrs +
LarvaLamp
Yikes! It thinks my friend's house is three houses down the street.
zFUBARz
My uncle gets people sent to the same street one county over. Like a 30 minutes distance on thoseong country roada
astrangehop
Sometimes you have to use actual coordinates. Sometimes that doesn't even help
slinkiisu
On my ride home our GPS decided the world was melting
LarvaLamp
Go on...
slinkiisu
LarvaLamp
cyberimg
What is that V stands for? Is it hiding/obscuring/standing in for a road block, normally a small red cross?
ColClone54
It is a hand gesture known to many in Britain. It is referring to the quality of directions via Google
Nikolai5
It means it isn't one of the more common meat based roads.
Chloesaurus
YayItsMillerTime
Vagerba
JaimeLannistersRightHand
Very road, much turn, wow
jargonmon
It actually explains the route because it indicates 'direction of traffic'. So this app thinks that section is a one way street.
nslavik
No the fuck it does not
AssDewlap
It's the name of the road; County Rd V. It's close to me.
DreadPirateJaceMangrove
Take me hooooome
BlueSheep
Country rooooooads
aeomis09
Wisconsin?
AssDewlap
Near Sturdivant!
RickRollable
What address though, and what's your pin number?
AssDewlap
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Blowing up protestants to attempt to turn a state catholic
actuallynotirate
Vendetta
sammyismycat
Vengeance
goflyblind
MyWifeMadeMeJoin
Excellent.
vurcease
Vexcellent
masteryoplait
Victory
SatansCrusader
Virtuous
suomynonA
Voltron
eastend666
On the way to Cape Cod my GPS once had me get off the highway to drive through Providence only to get back on the same highway.
jscuster
Apps like Waze will do this if there’s an accident on that stretch of highway. They’ll know of the accident within 2 minutes and reroute.
HelpfulCorn
I have a rule to always obey the Google when it does this. Has never steered me wrong.
eastend666
Good point - didn't think about that, but still think my car turned one degree too far in the wrong direction and the GPS misread it.
017renegade
Sometimes Google thinks there is less traffic. It will reconsider if you ignore it often enough.
seehemewe
Or Google says you can save 20 seconds by taking a side street & turning left in an intersection that sees 4 accidents a week. Yeah, ignored
HelpfulCorn
Turn across 4 lanes of traffic and a suicide lane, or complete the other side of the square and turn at the light
JollyJokzr
Self driving cars probably can't ignore stuff like this
Colopty
It depends...
SexyClaptrap
There would be no traffic here. Probably the majority of the “traffic” arc the people who actually live there
CharlieandOliver
Not necessarily. There’s a decent sized car park in the top right… maybe a church or something, so there’s likely traffic occasionally
AntiProtonBoy
Maybe google considers hourly average traffic as opposed to, say, yearly average.
Bluekitten03
Wow, I hope you did not do that. That would be a weird waste of time. Maybe also report it as a bug?
603933
they dont care, i remember coming to a road that had permanent barrier concreted into the ground so you couldnt go that way, I checked...
603933
street view and you could clearly see the barriers there, meaning the google car drove up to the blocked road and still marked it passable.
Bluekitten03
I just hope for more since that is someone's house (I think).
jscuster
If people using Waze mark it as a barrier it will populate back through Google maps.
Bluekitten03
You are probably right though, it just makes me sad.
drduffer
This is how brigands waylay you and steal your gold. Don’t fall for this, drive right on by!
commentsivehadafew
His neighbour hacked the system just to mess with him
Freak0zoid
Hacked? You can freely suggest edits in google maps.
TresusIbor
To draw in more victims*
djj25
You took a vetour
preventerfire
Every time someone cuts through his yard
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GSA1386
There was a V in the road. What choice did he have?
Flaptrapper
I'd avoid the V at all costs
shastaRed
Username checks out..
StarryPlough
Making every passing car drive through your driveway sounds like it is messing with you more than anyone else.
Zeboku
I think they're implying that the hacker is the victims neighbour
theactualfrickinmoon
But the neighbour lives in the same street so every car would pass him too
nezo
Adester
So many cities have problems because gps is sending the traffic through streets that are only made for light local traffic.
Tqy06
Yup. Kid died in my town because overzealous and stressed driver took a detour in a residential + school area and drove way too fast.
ImSynnical
My gps told me to turn right and I got half way down a highway off ramp before there were wrong way signs (thankfully nobody was around)
almostalone
I'm originally from Tacoma but my kids are not. They use the GPS and I'm like why tf we driving this way? Drives me crazy.
LarvaLamp
Oh hey, sounds like the Wallingford neighborhood in Seattle!
ThunderStrike2021
It’s not gps that routes traffic, it’s the algorithm of the program used.
Promethianfire
You're supposed to say, "Well, ACTIALLY..." first.
Adester
Sure, but how do you fit all that into 140 characters? Everybody knows what i mean when i write gps, no overcomplication required.
TheDayTheBrainStoodStill
Actually it's the CPU that calculates the routes - the algorithm is just a series of instructions and it doesn't do anything by itself.
TheDayTheBrainStoodStill
Now wasn't that annoying?
RunningInSpaces
This is a benefit, alleviating traffic on arteries while other roads are unused. Use the infrastructure. Even better, take the bus.
Dasterfly7
'take the bus' *cries in American*
Adester
Some infrastructure is made for lots of big trucks and others aren't. And then there is the damage to the health. If a residential >>
RunningInSpaces
You can't see the forest for the leaves. Smog doesn't sit in a street, and heavy machinery has bylaws that govern what streets can be used.
Adester
area is used to reduce the distance between two points, then the damage the traffic does can outweight the positives by far, at least if >>
Adester
one takes all aspects into account.
Frothington
This happened in my town, the new route has 4 roundabouts but is about 5 seconds quicker Dependent on traffic though it can be slower.
Adester
My city had to construct a very expensive bypass because gps was sending ALL trucks over traffic-calmed historic cobblestone roads.
zFUBARz
Feel like a no heavy truck sign and notifying google would do the trick.
HieronymousFlex
You'd be wrong. Truckers don't give a fuck about those signs.
Colopty
Hire a sniper on random days for a couple months and you solve that problem...
zFUBARz
Sure, but park a cop out there a couple days a week and fine the shit outa them. Word gets out eventually. Not perfect, but there's (1/2)
caldella
Mine is currently obsessed w/sending me 2 blocks the wrong way on a busy street then saying to U-turn back.
LeftRightThere
My favorite is when I take my shortcut on a route and then the time drops by minutes
SlyMrFox
I do that on my way back from classes through the roads of a now defunct mall. My gps would rather have me go through 5 lights that end in a
SlyMrFox
right hand turn that doesn't have a right turn only lane. That last light causes so much traffic that the other four being green does not
SlyMrFox
matter.
WattisLove
Gwinnett place?
thealmightywalrus420
Mine frequently tells me to turn left, then do a U-turn instead of just turning right.
PosthumousExile
Mine tried to send me to the river in the dark I didn't even know that I was about to hit the water until I got air time
Sigge1981
My mom's old Garmin told her to do a legal U-turn. On the highway...
pettingmycatwhileipoo
Im convinced it will do this if you have to cross more than 1 lane of traffic before the next instruction.
TheSecondPiewackit
My buddy lives on an island. I took a wrong turn on the way to his house. GPS wanted me to take the ferry back and turn around on mainland.
TheS4ndm4n
We're not getting self driving cars anytime soon, aren't we?
TheSecondPiewackit
Not unless all of them are. Adding human elements is what's currently fucking it up.
Z0op
Yup, automatic cars are definitely possible, but only if they all talk to eachother and can coordinate like that
TunnelRat13
Gods I hope not, the ferry fees alone will bankrupt us.
LarvaLamp
Mine used to try to get me to go the wrong way through a bus parking/storage unit thing behind a locked gate.
Badprenup
When I was driving from CA to MN I had a suggested alternative route that looped around a tiny block of shops then back on the main road 1/2
Badprenup
Somehow that was going to add 40 minutes to the drive. I'm not sure how it added 40 min or why it was suggested at all lol
Raenon
I'm guessing that it's just the GPS being required to offer alternate routes... literally anything else was even longer than 40 mins delay.
Raenon
Mine had me drive a few hundred feet down one-lane dirt road to shave perhaps 30 sec instead of the parallel fully paved road intersection.
3RsReadingRitingRithmatic
How to get to my house, turn off the already steep dirt road that leads right to my street. Climb the jeep trail you've entered. Park 1/2
3RsReadingRitingRithmatic
30 ft above my house. Get out and climb down the steep hill into my driveway. 2/2
Chloesaurus
Mine tried to tell me to turn left off a one way shortly before a light at another one way and redirected me onto another street to turn 1/2
Chloesaurus
Left onto that other one way where there was a stop sign. The side streets were also narrow and poorly maintained cus it's Indianapolis 2/2
brobinson2001
Mapquest tried sending our driver from Topeka to Bowling Green KY, around a roundabout, then back rather than make a left 6 blks away.
jesuisgur
I was 50m from a store in the right direction, GPS told me to go the other way around the whole damn city.
Umkontodon
I used to have one that tells me to make a U-turn in the middle of the highway
Umkontodon
Then gets angry and yells CALCULATING CALCULATING CALCULATING when I don't do what it wants
DarthFluffyBottom
Taxi driver here. Recently Google Maps have decided that illegal turns are apparently a-ok.
mikeatike
I've noticed this too. In very few places is it legal to do a u-turn at a stoplight, yet google wants me to do it all the fucking time now.
tychog99
I'm gonna hazard a guess and blame it on machine learning being let loose on actual user data
Krytture
Enough people did it, the computer saw it, figured, well shit, just do this!
tychog99
In this case it'd be more like "this one dude who lives in that house is the only one who uses the road so all the data shows that as the/