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Israeli Troops Who Relied On Waze Blundered Into Deadly Palestinian Firefight (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Israeli forces mounted a rescue mission in a Palestinian neighborhood after gun battles erupted when two soldiers mistakenly entered the area because of an error on a satellite navigation app, Israeli authorities said Tuesday.The clashes late Monday in the Qalandiya refugee camp outside Jerusalem left at least one Palestinian dead and 10 injured, one seriously. According to initial Israeli reports, the two soldiers said they had been using Waze, a highly touted Israeli-invented navigation app bought more than two years ago by Google. The smartphone app, which has a settings option to 'avoid dangerous areas,' relies on crowdsourcing to give users the fastest traffic routes.
Sod it all, I want tech or geek news.
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If you're relying on a commercial and/or free app or program for life-or-death situations, I think you're doing it wrong. If said option is the only option, then you have to take it at face value and accept some self-responsibility. I'm not going to trust my life to crowdsourcing for surgery or medication, so why would I trust my life to crowdsourcing for navigating near a war zone?
If you're using crowdsourcing to figure out the safe way to go, someone's got to be the first one to report a hazard.
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I just looked through my Waze settings and I don't see "avoid dangerous areas", does that just show as an option for some third world places like Palestine or NYC?
The closest thing I found was "avoid dirt roads"
It seems Waze is sadly lacking the option to mark a hazard for "active firefight".
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two soldiers mistakenly entered the area because of an error on a satellite navigation app
And what was this supposed "error"?
According to the article (or at least, the most informative quotes in the article), the "dangerous places" setting was switched off and the driver wasn't actually on the Waze-suggested route.
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policy and the map will be correct!
Invaders? You do know how Israel came to possess those areas, right? They took that land after all of their friendly neighbors tried to wipe them off of the map. Israel's caution has been proven to be right time and time again as Palestinians constantly try to kill Jews. If Mexico tried to destroy America, who could blame us if we took part of it to make sure that no weapons could get close?
Here are a couple of examples of how Israel's friendly neighbors only want peace and the extermination of every Jew:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now, can you show me any Jewish holidays dedicated to killing all Muslims, or Israeli TV shows that try to indoctrinate toddlers to kill people?
The Israelis live in the ONLY Jewish country. If only there were some other Muslim countries in that part of the world that the Palestinians could move to...
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Israel has a right to exist. A right to occupy territories and plant settlements in them outside its borders...no.
Try coming uninvited into my home and see where that gets you, jackass.
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