Google Maps sent me through the backyard of an industrial farm along an irrigation canal. 

Kinja'd!!! "NKato" (NKato)
05/26/2018 at 15:53 • Filed to: killer queen, Google

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I missed my turn after getting gas. Google Maps said, “no worries, go this way!”

Went around a farm warehouse, onto a dirt road, through a vehicle washing shed, over a heavily rutted and primitive railroad crossing, then along the irrigation canal through a flock of seagulls.

My reaction: what the fuck, Google?!

After the business tour, I took a look under the car and backed out of the parking spot. No sign of fluid loss. Thank goodness. Picture of dirty Killer Queen for your time.

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Update: bonus picture of the route I had taken. The building on the right was where I got onto the dirt road. Then I got off the trail at that tractor trailer parking lot in the foreground.

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DISCUSSION (8)


Kinja'd!!! mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/ > NKato
05/26/2018 at 16:09

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You must have asked for the scenic root.


Kinja'd!!! facw > NKato
05/26/2018 at 16:23

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Still accurate I see...

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Though imagine the dark old days when we had to print out directions from Google, or worse, Map Quest.


Kinja'd!!! Spanfeller is a twat > NKato
05/26/2018 at 16:25

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I missed a turn and accidentally ended up driving down a service road for a large water treatment factory


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > NKato
05/26/2018 at 16:26

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When driving from San Diego to the Grand Canyon, Google suggested the route through Twenty-Nine Palms and the Mojave Desert. It was a fascinating drive, but probably not the route I would have picked.

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Kinja'd!!! jkm7680 > NKato
05/26/2018 at 16:28

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If you have one thing to never worry about, it’s breaking something under a Crown Vic. In that things past life, it has definitely hopped many a curbs.


Kinja'd!!! Dr.Shloppins > mXxxxXm24 /O/ /O/
05/26/2018 at 16:32

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Is.... Is that a thing? Asking for a friend


Kinja'd!!! Die-Trying > NKato
05/26/2018 at 17:31

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you just need to get the Samir Thapar co-driver voice update callouts to avoid that........


Kinja'd!!! Nom De Plume > NKato
05/26/2018 at 18:15

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Back when Garmin first started selling dash mounted GPS the mapping software was known to go off a computers assessment of satellite imagery to determine what constituted a road. Game trails in open terrain, one too many rocks in a line, image taken at the moment someone completed the first row in their field, all kinds of zany shortcuts the normal person would never pursue.