[kortilla]

Some of these things are too annoying to do at scale so they just skipped it rather than choosing to intentionally dumb it down.

Making the call on what is a “scenic route” isn’t something you can just pull directly from highway department data.

[dmurray]

You could predict it from Streetview data though! A small bit of computer vision would go a long way here. Actually this seems like a fun project for someone inside or (if the API is not too throttled) outside Google.

[eternityforest]

Or better yet, when someone drives anywhere, predict if there was a faster way they could have gone, and take that as a candidate scenic view.