Sasha

ran into an interesting situation with Google Maps transit directions today:
I was trying to go an event relatively out in the suburbs, so GMaps told me to do a route that involves 3 buses and takes ~2 hours.

The recommended ~2 hour route was "take ~1 hour of buses to get to the big bus station in this suburban town, then take a 25 minute bus and walk 40 minutes to the place.

Google maps recommended this over: "take the same ~1 hour of buses to the big bus station and then walk 41 minutes to the place"

GMaps added a whole extra bus transfer and 25 minutes to save 1 minute of walking! What a weird way to program this tradeoff.

Feb 16, 2023 at 5:45pmWeb
Show threadSashaFeb 16, 2023
google maps generally assumes i have a higher aversion to walking than I do but I strongly doubt there are people who think 1 less minute of walking on a 40 minute walk is worth another bus transfer.