The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google
So you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or at least they don't bother you enough to seek alternatives?. It's not political, I am spelling out what you seem to be trying to avoid saying.
I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.
But you don't wish it enough to contribute in any way...
Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.
I think you are just doubling down on this to convince yourself that it is not that you are being selfish here, you are just being smart by not choosing a losing battle you made up in your head.
I have observed no issues. Every once in a while, when choosing large targets like an airport, it's hard to chose the right "destination" from the many available as the labels don't always have all details.
Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
PS: to put it in context, I am a casual user who basically never remembers street names or directions so I use it often but it's not like I am an Uber driver
Dude you are arguing against yourself... the scenario you described would not, at all, be stopped by current TSA protocols
Moreover, the bad TV show example about the highjackers threatening the pilots safely locked in the cabin... why would the pilots open or obey when the end result is crashing the plane?
Open the door or I'll kill this passenger... but if you open I will kill you, this passenger and the rest...
I think you guy are forgetting Occam Razor… the most likely scenario (least assumptions) here is that some inept appointee from the orange pedo thought this would be a good idea and pushed it with the research, planning and preparation we all put at farting after eating Taco Bell
PS: it's not that I think humans are particularly safe drivers, they are not. But you'd need to be a drooling idiot to believe anything an American company says that aligns with their bottom line.
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