The Register’s onto one hot story: The gang at Redmond may be working on a flying and/or amphibious car. How else could they explain some of their European MapPoint driving directions, which are sending cars into the Atlantic?
Readers have been bombarding The Register with bizarre driving directions spit out by MapPoint, like this one from Stockholm to Helsinki:
“The suggested route starts in the middle of the Baltic Sea on a ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki. Then you drive around in the Southern part of Finland before, magically, driving across the Baltic Sea on ‘local roads’ to arrive in Tallinn,” says one reader.
When asked how to drive between the Norwegian towns of Haugesund and Trondheim, normally a 270-mile trip, MapPoint suggested a 1,685-mile jaunt via the U.K.
The Reg theorizes Microsoft may also be working on hyperspace or wormhole technologies.
Via The Register
