[LMAO!] Microsoft patents ‘avoid ghetto’ feature for GPS devices

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Microsoft patents ‘avoid ghetto’ feature for GPS devices
Saturday, January 7, 2012 · 2:00 pm · 21 Comments

“Microsoft has been granted a patent for its ‘avoid ghetto’ feature for GPS devices,” CBS Seattle reports.
“A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an ‘unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures,’” CBS Seattle reports. “Created for mobile phones, the technology uses the latest crime statistics and weather data and includes them when calculating a route.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Verstyle]

That's a good figure if you ask me. GPS: High level of minorities... 3 blocks... 2 blocks... 1 block... AVOID AVOID AVOID... Do a u-turn anywhere.

[Danny Gunz]

Lol, I thought it was gonna be an Onion article

[ßringer]

White people. SMH.

[-Huey-]

George will ignore the GPS' pleads to turn around and head straight to the slums to try and hang with "real niggas."

[COVID-19]

I knew this would get serious responses.

[siablo14]

I knew this would get serious responses.

great news........................

[BOLLOCKS]

Best thing to happen since teh internetz.

[TheHoff'sGhost]

That gps system would tell me to stay away from my house.

Please take a U turn when possible. Avoid this area. Turn around immediately!

Eh? shut yer yaphole you daft tart, I bloody live here

[oaklandstephen]

damn, this is a good a$s idea.