[yummypaint]

A few years ago google maps told my wife and I to "use the left lane to turn right" at an intersection of major 5 lane roads. The diagram even showed a car in the far left turn lane making a suicidal right across all the traffic. I couldn't believe it. Not a new road either.

I can understand a bad sequence of directions emerging from the process, but issuing an individual instruction that on it's face is dangerous and wrong?

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

Jumping in before someone from Melbourne tells you about hook turns.

[senkora]

Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_turn

> A hook turn (Australian English) or two-stage turn (British English), also known as a Copenhagen Left (in reference to cyclists specifically),[1] is a road cycling manoeuvre or a motor vehicle traffic-control mechanism in which vehicles that would normally turn from the innermost lane of an intersection instead turn from the outermost lane, across all other lanes of traffic.

[eszed]

Jeepers! First I'd ever heard of those. The logic is flawless, but they'd be terrifying to encounter blind.