laugh of the day

[cellio]

Google Maps directions from Pittsburgh to London (not Ontario), courtesy of Dani. It's cool that they have a sense of humor, but I wonder about their optimization criteria. (Why Boston?) :-)

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Yes, but try driving to Hawaii. It can go to London, but doesn't know otherwise how to go OCONUS.

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

For that matter, why land at Calais? Why not land in Wales?

[magid.livejournal.com]

There's only two places one can enter/exit the Atlantic, at Boston's Long Wharf and at Calais. Doesn't everyone know that?
:-)

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

This explains Google's route from Miami, FL to Lisbon, Portugal.

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

They also don't give the best route to Boston.

I assume you can catch the frggin gulf stream at NYC.

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

(Why Boston?)

Why, indeed? I asked for directions from my home to Rome, and in spite of the fact that I live on an island in the Atlantic, the directions made me drive to Boston :-/

(At a guess, might it have something to do with Google having an office in Cambridge?)

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I paid them to send my friends here.

[alice-curiouser.livejournal.com]

"Swim across the Atlantic Ocean - 3,462 miles" - ROFL! Hope you're a strong swimmer. :D

[steven.livejournal.com]

Kinda makes you wonder whether Google's total estimated travel time of nearly a month factors in the speed at which one would swim!

[alice-curiouser.livejournal.com]

Or drown, in some of our cases. Drowning would really slow things down. ;)

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

I think the step "Slight right at E05" is my favorite, given its context.

[cellio]

Yeah, me too. "Swim across the Atlantic" made me laugh, but "slight right" really made me laugh.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, that's cute, and not to be a party-pooper, but consider this. Most travel-mapping programs (this one included, I'm pretty sure) will tell you to take a ferry if that's the way to get over a body of water. So why can't they (weighting the whole trip for car travel, which is, after all, the point of the exercise) give you directions to Newark or JFK or Logan, then tell you to park, book a rental at the nearest airport across the pond , and catch the next flight out?

For the SCAdians reading this, it reminds me of the days before Drachenwald went kingdom. Event directions often included "From Drachenwald: Sail due west. Beach the longboats on the Labrador coast, then pillage your way southwest until you reach I-95 and follow standard directions from there."