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It’s another example of unintentional bias at play. Most “Googlers” living in safe, well-maintained suburban USA assuming the rest of the world is the same.
by dkdbejwi383 6y ago
It’s another example of unintentional bias at play. Most “Googlers” living in safe, well-maintained suburban USA assuming the rest of the world is the same.
- howlgarnish 6y agoAnybody living on the Bay Area is painfully well aware that there are seriously sketchy neighborhoods. It's probably more an issue of data: there are no street-by-street crime maps for most of the world, and neither can Google feasibly collect this on their own.
- Solocomplex 6y agoThey absolutely could make a "safe zone" map overlay, but the political consequences would be PR suicide.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoWhile I agree with the sentiment, that's a complex problem to solve, what streets are "dangerous" and what aren't. Especially at scale.