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   From: rexjohns@nospam.com   
      
   "Dimensional Traveler"  wrote in message   
   news:52e1e158$0$52764$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...   
   > On 1/23/2014 6:15 PM, rex wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >> news:240120141310026807%YourName@YourISP.com...   
   >>> In article , rex   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:240120140855359808%YourName@YourISP.com...   
   >>>> > J. Clarke wrote:   
   >>>> >> In article <52e0c728$0$52806$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, >>   
   >>>> dtravel@sonic.net   
   >>>> >> says...   
   >>>> >> > 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.   
   >>>> >>   
   >>>> >> If a self-driving car took its _only_ navigational information from   
   >>>> >> a   
   >>>> >> GPS this would be an issue.  But the Google cars take their >>   
   >>>> information   
   >>>> >> from a variety of sources and should not drive off of the road   
   >>>> >> simply   
   >>>> >> because a GPS tells them to.   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> > Without massive amount of expensive changes to the roading system   
   >>>> and /   
   >>>> > or a sudden, and currently immpssible, increase in the   
   >>>> functionality of   
   >>>> > "artificial intelligence", there's no way to stop the cars going the   
   >>>> > wrong way down a one-way street (as one example) simply because   
   >>>> > Google   
   >>>> > Maps told them to.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It wouldn't be hard to ensure that google maps is always up to date   
   >>>> with any road change like that,   
   >>>   
   >>> It would be a MASSIVE task to try and keep it up to date with all the   
   >>> local changes worldwide,   
   >>   
   >> No, it's done right now.   
   >>   
   > As the examples that have already been posted show, no, it isn't.   
      
   Of course it is, that's how the GPS maps get updated.   
      
   And that isnt done by some ape in a car driving around   
   all the roads world wide looking for changes either.   
      
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