Navigation Apps Are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares

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8 points·anon104··5 comments

I have a hard time believing this will hold up in court. Surely they take some measure of federal money to keep up those roads - blocking access to other taxpayers just because they reside outside your city is clearly unequal treatment.

The problem here seems more like the infrastructure that is being diverted around, rather than the alternate routes themselves...

Los Gatos has closed a highway onramp now for two consecutive summers and it is perfectly legal

In California, you only need approval of Caltrans. In other states it is likely similar.

Many people think there is a "taxpayer" angle...there isn't. The governing body of the roads typically has blanket authority to close roads without public consent

In the end, Towns will reconfigure themselves to be giant cul de sacs.

Palo alto residential areas have tons of roadblocks. Honestly smart choice by the residents.

What happens when each of our individual devices has enough compute to be our personalized AI based navigation system? Will it compete with the other AIs also on the road? Will it learn offensive techniques to expedite it's routes? Will your economic status allow your AI to access more data and be better? Will you be able to optimize your AI for family driving vs. competitive commuting?

Premium subscribers will get the better routes. Companies will pay Google etc to divert people past their businesses and hit them with an advert at the right time. We are the product and we will be delivered to the customer.

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