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   In article <52df5822$0$52798$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Dimensional   
   Traveler  wrote:   
   > On 1/21/2014 7:46 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   > > "John F. Eldredge"  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> Several years back, something got royally screwed up in the Google Maps   
   > >> database.  If I recall correctly, going from one particular town to   
   > >> another in Scotland showed, correctly, a land trip of about 20 miles.   
   > >> Going in the reverse direction showed a trip of several hundred miles,   
   > >> passing through three different countries and involving two trips across   
   > >> the North Sea.   
   > >   
   > > I forget whether it was Google Maps, or some predecessor mapping   
   > > internet program, but I was once told to turn left from one car ferry   
   > > onto another near Nanaimo.   
   > >   
   > I once had map software on my laptop while I was entering St. Louis via   
   > a bridge across the Mississippi try to tell me to take a left turn from   
   > the divided interstate highway bridge a hundred feet up in the air onto   
   > the riverside jogging/bike path below.   
      
   One example of NUMEROUS that prove self-driving cars simply aren't   
   going to happen any time soon.   
      
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