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  • I don’t think it is simply “huh this place looks sketch”. Not sure if you read the article.

    The thing is, the criminals knew that Google routes rental cars along a typical route and so they ambush tourists violently along that route. For all I know the route may look fine.

    Anyway, you don’t have to label neighborhoods. Just have the app route them differently…

    …But wouldn’t the criminals catch onto that before long so that the new route becomes the ambush zone?

    Maybe there is a solution like randomly choosing a particular path at different hours but the fewer alternate routes the less effective that will be. Criminals could simply stake out one route and wait a little longer before a victim passes by.

    But is this really a mapping company’s problem to solve? Is the map app responsible for traveler security? What if you ask to be routed into or through a war zone (e.g. somewhere in Ukraine). Does the map app refuse? Warn you? Or what?

    What if someone gets a paper map? Is the map maker responsible? How about the rental car employees?

    Where does the responsibility of the tourist begin and end here?