It’s official: Google Maps is now woke.
Quite how that’s possible at first glance may be a mystery. After all, the app is generally used to get you from A to B, rather than through D, E and I.
For those of us who like to travel with a little bit of time on our hands, we may want to reach our destination via a scenic route.
However, the highly requested and much-wanted feature is unlikely to be available anytime soon thanks to diversity, equality and inclusion.
Social media user @kaseyklimes, who formerly worked on Google Maps, revealed the reasoning behind the lack of a “scenic route” option on the app in a thread on X over the weekend, revealing that DEI gibberish is responsible.
“Inadvertently diverting foot traffic from low-income streets to high-income streets takes revenue and potentially tax dollars from already struggling communities and funnels it instead to richer communities,” he wrote on the platform. In other words, he’s upset that people may spend money in nicer areas if a “scenic route” option was available on the app.
Despite his desire for a scenic route option, Klimes added that the global reach of Google Maps would add a “bias” across the system compared to the current model where each street has “an equal chance” at being used to direct foot traffic.
In response to the revelations, fellow social media users were quick to vent their frustrations, with some moving towards other navigational systems such as Apple Maps instead.
Others also raised concerns over the impact on people who are directed through areas with high crime rates.
What’s your view on Google Maps? Let us know in the comments below.
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I’m shutting off Google Maps as soon as I post this response. Glad I was warned. Sometimes when I forget my GPS I use Google Maps. No more.
I would comment, but my mamma taught me it weren’t nice to cuss out idiots in public.
There’s already’spatial inequality. We use roads instead of bushwhacking across country
Sounds like a ‘Joe Job’. Not to be cornfused with Kamala’s special type of ‘Job’…
MLK Scenic Route
‘Drive By’s’
‘Fried Chicken Drive Thru’s’
‘Car Jackings’
‘$20 Car Jacking’ (gender variant)
‘Slum Appreciation’
‘No Go Zones’
‘Graffiti Awareness & Appreciation’
Just avoid Martin Luther King Jr Blvd etc.
Why would one EVER trust Google?!? The most invasive and perverse sypware ever! I hate being tracked which is also why I don’t ever use google as my search engine. There are other much better ones such as duckduckgo…
Just got back from a trip to Oregon for a wedding in the mountains… only way to an even was a side highway which was also a senic roadway….. WAZE which I have used for everything blocked it out with an off shoot message I can’t remember …. But it was blocked, no directions, no anything until back on highway…. Not a connection issue… Now it makes sense! WAZE was bought out by Google and now they must have updated it also…. What trash!!! Waze was sooo great…. Dadgumit
Paper maps don’t use dei. They still exist. They do require a smidgen of skill though.
Woke is an excuse for failure.
Is this true on WAZE as well since Google owns them and they merged the two teams in 2022?
Wow, I am so glad I read this article. I will now use another app for my GPS and map. Thanks again.