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(#12) Google Maps Loses Balboa Park
Balboa Park in San Diego isn't the easiest place to find, and this is especially true if you try to find it with Google Maps. If you search for the park, you're sent directly to a series of random canyons. Maybe someone should at least put some slides in the canyon. -
(#16) Self Driving Car Gets Into Accident
It had to happen at some point. In 2016 one of Google's self-driving, 3D-mapping cars smacked into a public bus moving at about 2 mph.Nothing was damaged, except Google's pride. -
(#11) Family Farm Falls Victim to Digital Mapping
For over a decade, the Vogelman family has been living in a nightmare world involving FBI agents, ambulances searching for suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for missing children, all because the original IP Mapping of the farm was wrong.
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(#13) Google Maps Gives Hitler His Due
Well this is embarrassing. In 2014, Google Maps accepted an edit to rename Theoder-Heuss Square in Berlin to “Adolf Hitler Platz.” The Google employee that okayed the edit didn't just accept the title as a nickname, he made it the actual name of the park. Obviously that didn't sit well with the German public, who don't whitewash their tarnished past, but would rather not be needlessly identified with Nazis either. -
(#7) Scottish Island Disappears
As if the Scottish weren't maligned enough, in 2013 Google made one of the country's islands straight-up disappear. A representative for Google said, "We hope to have the map of Jura back to normal as soon as possible." OK! -
(#18) Google Car Causes Crash
In 2014, a Google Street View driver in Arkansas went the wrong way down a one way street, then he did a U-Turn and side swiped another car. The other motorist received minor injuries and said, "Something better come out of Google's pocket for this." Who thinks the Google driver was using Maps when he crashed?
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Google Maps has become an indispensable APP for modern people to travel. When using Google Maps, even without entering a destination, users can get driving traffic, easily search for locations, or quickly navigate to common types of locations, or traffic delays along the route, such as traffic accidents or construction work. Such an intelligent app cannot avoid some terrible blunders.
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