It’s official: Google Maps is now woke.
Quite how that’s possible at first glance may be a mystery. After all, the app is generally used to get you from A to B, rather than through D, E and I.
For those of us who like to travel with a little bit of time on our hands, we may want to reach our destination via a scenic route.
However, the highly requested and much-wanted feature [1] is unlikely to be available anytime soon thanks to diversity, equality and inclusion.
Social media user @kaseyklimes, who formerly worked on Google Maps, revealed the reasoning behind the lack of a “scenic route” option on the app in a thread [2] on X over the weekend, revealing that DEI gibberish is responsible.
“Inadvertently diverting foot traffic from low-income streets to high-income streets takes revenue and potentially tax dollars from already struggling communities and funnels it instead to richer communities,” he wrote on the platform. In other words, he’s upset that people may spend money in nicer areas if… To check out the rest of this story, visit WokeSpy. [3]