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Your Appleseed State Board => Ohio => Topic started by: Edheler on July 23, 2012, 06:44:39 PM

Title: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: Edheler on July 23, 2012, 06:44:39 PM
Seen along the route Google Maps gave me as directions from home to the New Philadelphia, Ohio Appleseed. :)

(http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=30888.0;attach=91877)

Closeup on the sign:

(http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=30888.0;attach=91881)
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: hinermad on July 23, 2012, 08:01:02 PM
The sign's got reasonably fresh paint on it, so you should be okay. You only need to worry when  the sign looks like it's been bead-blasted with 00 buckshot. (grin)

Dave
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: Edheler on July 23, 2012, 08:03:24 PM
I wasn't really worried since I was in a Jeep just thought it was humorous. :)
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: slim on July 23, 2012, 09:23:29 PM
Driving a Jeep sure is nice. "I don't have to worry about the road because I drive a Jeep." That, folks, is the "Jeep thing" you've heard us talking about.
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: Nero on July 24, 2012, 12:31:52 AM
I wonder what would happen if one of Google's self-driving cars followed their maps up onto that road?   >:D

I've seen a couple of their prototypes around the Bay Area, both Prius'.  Not exactly your high-clearance ride!   ;D
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: Edheler on July 24, 2012, 08:38:34 AM
It would probably be ok, the road was actually in better shape than when I saw it last year. I think someone took a load of gravel and spread it out on part which had been washed out. It's really only a small section (a little less than 0.2 of a mile) of the road which the sign applied to. A little further on though the road becomes a single lane tar and chipped old fashioned country road which might give the Google self-driving cars' lane following algorithms fits. ;D
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: dwarven1 on July 24, 2012, 05:12:19 PM
Quote from: Hinermad on July 23, 2012, 08:01:02 PM
The sign's got reasonably fresh paint on it, so you should be okay. You only need to worry when  the sign looks like it's been bead-blasted with 00 buckshot.

I'd only have started worrying if I'd heard banjos.
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: azmule on July 24, 2012, 08:34:46 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Where in the world is Google taking me?
Post by: Barbie on July 24, 2012, 11:59:41 PM
Google maps must be out to get us... no joke, here is where I ended up one day after a wrong turn... I couldn't resist taking a picture....