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It does seem somewhat paranoid. Might be useful to exclude certain routes with an easy interface, but tremendously harmful by seemingly legitimizing the myth of
by IfOnlyYouKnew 8y ago
It does seem somewhat paranoid. Might be useful to exclude certain routes with an easy interface, but tremendously harmful by seemingly legitimizing the myth of “no-go” areas that has recently become a favorite talking point of the alt-right in my (perfectly safe) country.
- Hrundi 8y agoNot only this is not recent, it has nothing to do with politics or ideology, at all. No-go zones have been used all over the world for decades.
- 13of40 8y agoNot all over the world. I'm in Seattle and I'd probably have to drive to Chicago or Tijuana to find a place I wouldn't feel safe driving through.
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- hackerman12345 8y agoIf you find people staying safe to be tremendously harmful to your politics it might be time to reconsider your viewpoints.
- timthorn 8y agoThe ability to avoid an area is a useful and apolitical capability. I often want my satnav to exclude driving through cities as it's more relaxing and often faster to drive around, and when there are roadworks or large scale events it is really helpful to be able to exclude them.
- natalyarostova 8y agoI work with many foreign women who have no idea the safe and dangerous areas of our city. You might consider from their point of view the value of such a service, rather than worrying about more meta-tribal political battles. Some areas of my city have higher harassment and crime rates, as a man this is less concerning for me, but it's something many women need to take much more seriously.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 8y agoWell, I guess it differs from country to country. Here, people would consider me a paternalistic macho for suggesting women should stay away from this or that area. Also, is Natalya a male name?
- daveFNbuck 8y agoThere's a neighborhood along my drive home that Waze will often try to navigate through to save a few minutes of driving. This rarely actually saves the time it claims, and is disruptive enough to people living in the neighborhood that entrances to the neighborhood now have signs excluding non-local traffic from entering. Waze still tries to navigate me through this neighborhood all the time. It makes the app nearly worthless for finding routes home. There are also some other streets I've learned not to trust when Waze tells me to take them home, as they often have much more traffic than predicted. I'd love to be able to block those as well.
- IAmEveryone 8y agoI believe the entire use case you present was already acknowledged in the comment you are replying to, I. e. the “easy interface” to “exclude certain routes”.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoThe parent is providing an alternative reason for avoiding particular neighborhoods. Also as votes are hidden here me-toos provide useful info.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoThe comment I was replying said that the functionality might be useful. This does not acknowledge any particular use case for the functionality, and leaves open the possibility that it might not be useful. Someone who isn't sure whether this functionality has legitimate uses or not probably isn't aware of what the legitimate uses are.
- 80386 8y agoSome roads were shut down for construction near where I work a few months ago. Uber and Lyft don't seem to take data like that into account, so I had a hell of a time getting home from work - I'd have two or three canceled rides before I got one that happened not to be routed through any closed roads.
- tptacek 8y agoI don't disagree about "no-go" areas, but since the comment to which you replied didn't mention those, and your own comment set off a sprawl of off-topic comments, I wish you hadn't written this here.
- IAmEveryone 8y agoI believe the mention of Rolls-Royce, in association with “avoid area” may (legitimately) create the impression that this is a feature for pearl-clutching snobs afraid of “dark people” coming for their women and other belongings. It’s perfectly okay to consider this and still say the feature’s benefits are overwhelming. But the rabiat outburst of denying even the possibility is an indictment of the posters more than the suggestion that triggered them.
- netsharc 8y agoWell if you live in sleepy Luxembourg you'll probably not need that feature, but other countries might need it. https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/05/americas/brazil-wrong-directions-death/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/05/americas/brazil-wrong-dir...