Sunday, March 16, 2014

Amazing intelligent Google maps

I have to say that I'm really impressed by the amazing intelligence of Google maps. Here is the story I always told to my friends so they might also like to use Google maps.

One evening, there was a natural gas leak right before the major entries of high way 78. I came from southwest, driving toward northeast. A lot of police cars blocked the road due to the natural gas leak incident. I put on Google maps after stuck in the traffic for a while (that's my daily commute, I don't need any GPS if everything was normal), and Google maps detoured me to a small road, and directed me to pass the middle barrier as shown in the green line in attached screen shot. The amazing things were:

1. This route was not allowed in a normal condition due to the heave traffic in both directions.
2. The gap between the middle barrier and Police cars were only about 100 feet.

I don't know how Google maps figured out that incredible since the incidents probably only happened 2 hours ago. One I put the Google maps on, it only took me 20 minutes to pass this point. I knew a lot of my friends were stuck there for 4 hours even some of them tried to use GPS. No any other GPS could be so intelligence as Google maps.

 

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