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by mcarrano 3771 days ago
Late last year a friend of mine was involved in a car accident.

The other driver was following the Google Maps directions on their phone which told them to go down a one way street, it just happened to be the wrong direction. Luckily no one was hurt.

People really need to pay attention when they drive and read the road signs. Just because the GPS says to go down a street, doesn't mean you are allowed to go down it the wrong way.

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Yup, source data is one of the issues here: I had Waze send me up one-way streets more than once. (Okay...there's a community map editor, let's fire that up and fix this. "You can't edit a road, you need Magic Editor Points." Oookay, how do I get Magic Editor Points? "You get points by making edits..." and you need points to do that.

Well take that editor and shove it, I'm in no mood for a Catch-22.)