Microsoft patents “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices

Microsoft patents “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices. 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.” The monkey-feces media attached the term “avoid ghetto” to the device – are they suggesting the only unsafe neighborhoods are “ghettos”? Too bad there ain’t an app for “avoid drooling media idiots.”

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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  • This is just another reason Bill Gates is a genius. This should be avalible for ALL GPS units. Microsoft shout license this technology to all GPS brands.

  • This means that it will tell you to totally avoid Chicago, Philly and even L.A.(always) in the middle of winter. On the other hand, it will guide traveling dope dealers as to where to go to get low.

  • Now if Microsoft could just come up with an Avoid Lying Marxist Liberal Politician feature, it would serve the same purpose as the avoid the Ghetto feature, with additional functionality.

  • That would be most of the major US cities...and some of the mid sized ones...where eber da free shit is handed out....and da peoples poops on da po-lice cars....

    • da po-lice cars...,

      and where da 'honky muf' be messin' mah old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head, you know?'

  • The Ghetto is a democrat stronghold.

    It has to be a brutal place.

    Just look at how the democrat politicians brutalize the opposition. Case in point: Sarah Palin.

    Just look at the way they brutalize the people living in the ghetto -- and they are their own people.