XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/21/2014 9:49 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   :)  For some reason the phrase "evolution in action" comes to mind....   
      
   --   
   The 'Enterprise' crew in the 2009 Star Trek are adrenaline addicted,   
   hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
   methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate   
   wouldn't tolerate.   
      
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