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GradyPhilpott · 9 January 2012, 06:42 AM

Microsoft has just been granted a patent for a GPS feature that warns pedestrians to avoid areas where crime is high and apparently where the weather is bad, not that there's necessarily a correlation between the two.

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.”

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...r-gps-devices/

btrue · 9 January 2012, 06:54 AM

This just in, tourism in Detroit is now at an all time low...!

ducatidoc · 9 January 2012, 07:25 AM

Not a bad idea. I actually know of a guy from Detroit who got lost in an unsavory part of town while travelling to a GTG, thanks to a misguided GPS.

Brunotheboxer · 9 January 2012, 07:44 AM

Microshaft is so irrelevant now that they have to try anything to get back in the game.

Darlinboy · 9 January 2012, 07:49 AM

Wait for the charges of geographic and meteorological profiling that will inevitably follow.

9 January 2012, 06:42 AM	#1
GradyPhilpott 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: New Mexico Watch: Seiko #SRK047 Posts: 34,460	Don't Go There! Microsoft has just been granted a patent for a GPS feature that warns pedestrians to avoid areas where crime is high and apparently where the weather is bad, not that there's necessarily a correlation between the two. 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.” http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/...r-gps-devices/ __________________ JJ Inaugural TRF $50 Watch Challenge Winner

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ducatidoc "TRF" Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: the doc side Watch: zenith Posts: 3,779	Not a bad idea. I actually know of a guy from Detroit who got lost in an unsavory part of town while travelling to a GTG, thanks to a misguided GPS. __________________ The payments remain long after the novelty has worn off. # 26371 NAWCC Member

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9 January 2012, 06:54 AM	#2
btrue Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Real Name: Bill Location: Indianapolis Watch: GMT IIC; PAM 005 Posts: 244	This just in, tourism in Detroit is now at an all time low...!

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Brunotheboxer Banned Join Date: Mar 2008 Real Name: Bruno Location: Boston/Cape Cod Watch: 16610,PAM. 111, G Posts: 7,608	Microshaft is so irrelevant now that they have to try anything to get back in the game.

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