Self-driving cars aren’t going to be so great until we make our maps way better
Uber is rolling out self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, which is cool — but it means that the way we think about maps and addresses is about to get really complicated. For example, here is something that happens to me several times a week: I call an Uber to my apartment building, and the driver gets lost because they can’t find the door.
See, the address of my building is on a main street, but the actual entrances are on the sides of the building — and when I drop a pin at th
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