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Is Garmin racist?
JamesRK
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Garmin is about to add a feature to their GPS which allows you to bypass high crime areas.
A politician, I didn't get her name or state, said this is racist.
I wonder why she automatically assumes high crime areas are associated with any race. I think there might be a racist in the story, but it ain't necessarily Garmin.
A politician, I didn't get her name or state, said this is racist.
I wonder why she automatically assumes high crime areas are associated with any race. I think there might be a racist in the story, but it ain't necessarily Garmin.
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Garmin is about to add a feature to their GPS which allows you to bypass high crime areas.
A politician, I didn't get her name or state, said this is racist.
I wonder why she automatically assumes high crime areas are associated with any race. I think there might be a racist in the story, but it ain't necessarily Garmin.
+1000[;)]
Bad areas are bad areas. Different races can be the cause...or it could be economically based, which is not necessarily race based.
Garmin is about to add a feature to their GPS which allows you to bypass high crime areas.
A politician, I didn't get her name or state, said this is racist.
I wonder why she automatically assumes high crime areas are associated with any race. I think there might be a racist in the story, but it ain't necessarily Garmin.
Was the politician black? The ad says nothing about race, just crime.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Garmin is just smart and looking out for thier customers, stupid politicians are always going to be stupid.
and looking out for themselves along the way, if it has ot already happened surely it will.....'Garmin told me to drive through that area of Detroit where I was raped, robed, and carjacked, I'm suing Garmin'
Garmin is responsible
That's right! Garmin and George Bush!
And probably Haliburton.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088667/Critics-say-Microsoft-Avoid-Ghetto-app-damage-economies-poor-communities.html
If I normally would avoid an area because I thought it was high crime then this app would keep me from being guided through that area against my wishes or forcing me to place manual waypoints around it.
Since this is supposedly based on 'real' statistics instead of drivers' opinions it would probably not guide people away from low crime slums that were being manually avoided and thus magically improve their economies the same way that it would magically degrade the economies of high crime areas.
Of course once you start imposing more rules on the device beyond "fastest, shortest, least turns" you open the door for it to be silently manipulated for the gain of people who have a vested interest in changing the routes of potential customers.
For me though, I'm unaware of any scary places on routes I travel but I go wherever my GPS tells me to go. Once I told it to lead me to the pet store and when it said I was there I found myself at the loading docks behind some other store... I'd like to see errors like that fixed with the same amount of effort as scampering for the next payed upgrade.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Garmin is about to add a feature to their GPS which allows you to bypass high crime areas.
A politician, I didn't get her name or state, said this is racist.
I wonder why she automatically assumes high crime areas are associated with any race. I think there might be a racist in the story, but it ain't necessarily Garmin.
you have a unique way with words, very astute and to the point
She's afraid it would hurt business [;)]
Actually I think it'll be funny how much of cities like NOLA is blacked out or Los Angeles browned out [:D]. Say if you're looking for places to eat does it have icons of tacos or watermelon as markers?
Hell before GPS most folks knew bad areas by the liquor store window ads of malt liquor brands. If you saw smiling Billy Dee you in the wrong neighborhood, whities [:D]. Ah the '80's and crack.