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Google Maps leads Nevada-bound drivers astray with Interstate 80 closure

Google Maps leads Nevada-bound drivers astray with Interstate 80 closure

Google doesn’t always know best. Despite warnings to avoid travel after a massive snowstorm that started Christmas weekend closed major highways, thousands of people insisted on trying to drive into or out of the socked-in Sierra Nevada.   Some needed to get home. Some wanted to visit family. Some just wanted to play in the snow. Some were led astray by poor judgement. And many were led astray by Google Maps, which offered alternate driving routes that sent drivers to snowy dead ends.

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