In the Bay Area some suburbs have themselves marked as “do not traverse” in Google’s database, so you can find shortcuts which maps won’t admit 
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Whoa. I didn’t know that was a thing!
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I did this through rural Idaho on our way back after watching the eclipse. We got back to our cabin 90 minutes before the other cars in our convoy. Thing is, I used Google Maps to scout out which back roads to take.
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Well, sure, but that's unrelated. I can't find the Knuth proof, but, Mustaches ≻ A*
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I have done it before. It’s bey satisfying.
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Wait, I forget -- are you in the DC region. Because that's all just a die roll.
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Recently I used Apple Maps to drive to a place I knew a short route to, but followed Maps' one anyway; got annoyed that it was a much longer one; turned out my “better” one was congested as F, so ya, traffic monitoring works, can't fight reality
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My son was just giving me crap about this last week. My response: it's less about efficiency and more about familiarity. "I'm comfortable going the slow route"
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