Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint::A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit against Google Maps for allegedly navigating them to a notorious South African crime neighborhood where tourists are left ‘injured, maimed or dead.’

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    8 months ago

    The New Eisleben Road was known as a “prime site” for the assaults because its highly congested roads would make it difficult for victims to escape, and “the gangs knew that Google Maps sent unsuspecting tourists driving rental cars” along it, the lawsuit alleged, according to Mercury News.

    It’s high crime because google sends tourists there…

    If it sent them somewhere else, that would be the high crime area.

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      8 months ago

      It’s a high crime neighborhood because criminals live there. Or more precisely, because it’s a poor, gang infested neighborhood.

      What you’ve said makes no sense. There are high crime neighborhoods like this all over the country independently of what Google maps does. There are also neighborhoods full of tourists that aren’t high crime areas.

      Particular conditions, in this particular neighborhood, lead to these particular crimes occurring.

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        It’s a high crime neighborhood because criminals live there

        Poor people rarely steal from their poor neighbors…

        I’ve lived in lots of “bad neighborhoods” and never had my stuff messed with, I’ve lived in “good places” a few blocks away from the bad ones, and shit was always being stolen.

        Its not complicated bud.