amos083@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:38:53 +0200
Something similar had happened in Israel in 2013: A major freeway was flooded, and the popular Waze navigation app (which was rather new, now owned by Google) was directing drivers directly into it, because it sowed on the maps as having no traffic! This resulted in huge jams all over the central region of the country.
Following this incident, Waze had added an option for drivers to report block roads, and incorporated blockages into its maps and algorithms.
I wonder what type of application drivers in California are using...