New google maps: "Take exit 164 bytes" ROFL

[jkc120]

LOVE the new voice on google maps, but just found a bug.

When navigating, for exit 164B it tells me "In a quarter mile, take exit one sixty four bytes". ROFL! Too funny...

 

[jbdan]

:laugh::laugh:

 

[TheyCallMeBT]

That's interesting. But I wonder if it's not a bug, and they've chosen to use a phonetic alphabet on single letters. If you don't know what a phonetic alphabet is, it's what you hear people on police/ military/ CIA type shows say when spelling something over the radio or phone. The standard NATO phonetic alphabet starts alpha, bravo, charlie, delta (or david for aviation), echo, foxtrot, etc. So "B" should be "bravo". But the way Google is, I could see them choosing some techy version. I don't know, it's just the first thing I thought when I read this.

NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm personally waiting to update anything important like Maps because we know what happened last time. lol. Does it otherwise seem to be working alright?