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Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by dkdbejwi383 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:29AM (#25580082)
It’s another example of unintentional bias at play. Most “Googlers” living in safe, well-maintained suburban USA assuming the rest of the world is the same.
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Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by howlgarnish on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:54AM (#25581666)
Anybody living on the Bay Area is painfully well aware that there are seriously sketchy neighborhoods. It's probably more an issue of data: there are no street-by-street crime maps for most of the world, and neither can Google feasibly collect this on their own.
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Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by Solocomplex on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:52PM (#25586592)
They absolutely could make a "safe zone" map overlay, but the political consequences would be PR suicide.
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Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by Dirlewanger on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:52AM (#25582689)
While I agree with the sentiment, that's a complex problem to solve, what streets are "dangerous" and what aren't. Especially at scale.
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