> But it sounds like humans were already submitting this and nobody was doing anything This is what leads me to believe that there was a data fusion error. The

> But it sounds like humans were already submitting this and nobody was doing anything This is what leads me to believe that there was a data fusion error. The scenario that sounds likely is that they successfully flagged the street aa unnavigable, then something happened in the intervening time (such as a May 2023 updated data collection) that convinced the map it had newer real-world-facts to contradict the older human reports. I agree that StreetView isn't sufficient on its own. But if Google is doing any kind of AI analysis of the road images, StreetView collection is the highest-accuracy data they could possibly draw from. This smells like "We trusted our algorithm for going from road images and car path metadata to map construction and it failed us." > think roads disappearing because they had construction on the day google street view was in the area or the driver missing an area of town and having it disappear from the map That's two reasons they can't rely on only StreetView collection; they'd have to have an algorithm for fusing StreetView data with other data sources (including older StreetView runs).