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  • I don’t know whether you didn’t read the article or are just one of these simpletons incapable of holding an opinion more nuanced that “good or evil”, but they are suing the owners.

    So in the old days, he would’ve had a paper map and would have driven off the bridge the same way.

    Paper maps don’t talk to you and tell you which way to go, do they?

    I seriously can’t decide whether you’re some Google shill or you’ve just given your brain the day off.



  • Let’s get this straight.

    Google publishes maps that are inaccurate. They were informed of the inaccuracies multiple times, yet did nothing. Subsequently, someone died following their incorrect maps that they couldn’t be bothered to fix — despite the fact that a fucked bridge is clearly potentially super dangerous.

    And you think this has “literally nothing” to do with Google?

    Are you a shareholder or something? That’s some hardcore corporate arse-kissing, imo.







  • Hard disagree. Back in its early days, Google was genuinely decent. They competed by building better stuff than everyone else, and that’s it.

    There was no decent free email and no free maps before Google. You used to have to pay hundreds for decent mapping software.

    The good old Web 2.0 days, when companies were falling over themselves to provide free APIs and see what people could do with them.

    Google started going to shit when they brought out Android and everybody started trying to build walled gardens, and went full evil when that moral vacuum Pichai took over.






  • A 2022 Toyota Corolla gets around 40mpg highway and squeezes 5 people inside so it uses 0.5 gallons per person per 100mi.

    5 people in the Corolla is 2–3 times as many people as are at all likely to be in there. That’s a very skewed number.

    When using realistic numbers, cars come in at about the same per mile as large commercial airliners. (Flights tend to be far, far longer of course.)