Death by AI

That's just Google Maps being Google Maps, as anyone who has used them since 2005 can tell you.

I can see a bright future in blaming things on AI that have nothing to do with AI, at least on here.

Well my dog died and that never happened before AI.

In 2005 or 2006 google maps gave me directions that would have gotten me a ticket (I know because I'd previously gotten a ticket by accidentally taking the same route). I emailed. A human responded back and thanked me, and they corrected the behavior.

Many things have changed since then.

The road outside my house was widened into a highway more than five years ago. To this day, Google Maps still asks me to take detours that were only active during construction. I have reported this ad nauseum. Nothing. It also keeps telling me to turn from the service lanes onto the highway at points that only pedestrians walk across. More than once, it's asked me to take illegal turns or go the wrong way up a one way street (probably because people on motorbikes go that).

Whatever method they use to update their data is broken, or they do not care about countries our size enough to make sure it is reasonably correct and up-to-date.

Sounds 100 percent like a government issue? Local gov just forgot to update whatever maps/data source of truth that they publish publicly?

Sounds like you need to report it at your municipality or whatever local gov is responsible for keeping their GIS up to date.

That's interesting, and they may have different "lines" into the "map change" department; I reported both a previous residence and previous work location (in Downtown Atlanta, yet!) both having their google map "pins" in the wrong spot, and both were fixed within a week.

Curious what the situation is that would have given you a ticket for taking a particular route; was it a legal "no through traffic" or going the wrong way down a 1-way street?

How does the police force distinguish between a map route and people randomly bumbling there? Were there signs that were ignored?

Maybe it is, but does Google actually get data from government maps? Isn't it mostly satellite data + machine learning from people's movement by tracking phones?

In Herndon, VA near dulles airport there is a toll road that extends into DC. However, if you enter the toll road from the airport you get into special divided lanes that are toll-free for traffic to/from the airport. (Or at least there was two decades ago)

I got a ticket that way once when I was visiting because I only knew how to get back to my hotel from the airport so I drove to the airport then to the hotel-- and I guess the police watch for people looping through the airport to avoid the tolls. In my case I wasn't aware of the weird toll/no-toll thing-- I was just lost and more concerned with finding my hotel than the posted 'no through traffic' signs.

Later, after moving to VA, I noticed google maps was explicitly routing trips from near the airport to other places to take a loop through the airport to minimize toll costs which would have been quite clever if it weren't prohibited.

haha, wow. I've only driven THROUGH VA a few times and had a sphincter pucker almost the entire way just because of reputation. That's nuts.