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Does anyone remember what it was like to drive somewhere or try to find a place you hadn’t been to before without a map on your phone? Not even talking about using a paper map and the last time you used one to get somewhere. Whether it’s Google Maps, Apple Maps, or even Waze, you may be more than dependent on a map application. But judging from the reactions to a post a user shared on Twitter with an image of a sinking car and caption “google maps deada** have you like this,” not all maps are equal and they don't always lead to destinations. The post below has opened a can of worms of the never-ending dispute of which is the worst navigation app and turns out Apple Maps is taking the beating this time on a Twitter thread dedicated to that.

Image credits: ArfanKHXNL

Below are 29 of the best posts and jokes about the struggles of using mapping applications that often leave their users lost and confused. But if you don’t know where you're going, you can’t get lost, right?

#1

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OverlyLiked Report

LunaMoon
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel this one so much 🤣

Theater Kid
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least if you have a candle you'll know if you're driving into the water or not.

Steve
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#8 should be blindfolding yourself and pointing in random direction

Mia right
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Letting the SUN GUIDE U 🤣😭😂🥲

Thorfin Wolfsbane
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Got directions from Apple Maps one time. Instructions: turn right...now make a u-turn...for real

Freya the Wanderer
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When planning a trip I use a combination of Google Maps, Bing Maps and MapQuest - and in the end I rely most on my hand-written notes. However, Google Maps has saved my a**e on more than one occasion.

Max Thompson
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The stars as guidance is WAY better.

kkathleen517
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's the deal with Apple maps? I've never used it, why do they suck so bad?

Christine Didier
Community Member
4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's always a fight in the car, my android that never fails and his iPhone which needs to start using Google maps because its got a habit? of taking the long, zig zagging route and really never knowing where its taking us. Also, the map app in my 2013 Toyota Rav4 does a better job than the iPhone map, and that's saying a lot.

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The people are once again divided—this time on what is better (or what is worse): Apple Maps or Google Maps. Of course, there is some percentage of Waze users that ensure that both of the most popular aforementioned apps are equally misleading and will take you through the worst route with the most confusing directions and no return back, meaning you will just end up stuck on the top of some tree.

The apps are getting roasted to the point that one Twitter user questions if Apple Maps creators are actually using the same app to get to work and have firsthand experience of how bad it can actually be.

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    #2

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    FalcDanny Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well it says fastest doesn't say safest!

    Theater Kid
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not fastest if you die in the middle. That would be a major delay.

    Marcellus the Third
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It will be over quicker than the alternative, so quickest?

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    John C
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't consider myself a wimp, but I cannot imagine doing this. O.M.G.

    DatMobileGaming 1
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there's no traffic so it is the fastest

    Virgil Sanders
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i mean you would die pretty fast so maybe that's what they meant

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    #3

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the first GPS i had years ago and we ended up with my friends in a road that wasn't really a road.... this is how horror films start!!

    Theater Kid
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's the quickest way, it's the quickest way.

    Id row
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way" "But isn't that just the wrong way?" "Yeah, but faster!"

    Jo Johannsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend decided to drive from LA to Las Vegas, but ended up in San Diego....?

    TheDragapultUser
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sooo, I had to drive over a creek, between two woods, and smh I was supposed to drive thru a house

    Jack Holt
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This happened in QLD a few year's back. A carful of tourists decided to follow the gps over to Stradbroke Island, over the water in their hire car. The car got bogged in the mudflats and was a write off. The driver's excuse was "But maps said there was a road!"

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like the one GPS I had "Now turn right".... that's the effin' Rhine and not a street!

    Dakota Cagle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    reminds me of my swim in south Africa when i swam with the hippos

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    #4

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    EcuaDeLorean99 Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well if the tree is at the right destination then the map is accurate😅😅

    Triv
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would still love to know how the truck got up there with no visible damage. I've lived in Tornado Alley and have seen what tornados can do. For eff's sake, my highschool team was the Golden Tornadoes!

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    𝕁𝕖𝕟𝕟𝕪𝔹𝕖𝕖
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh no....did Harry and Ron crash another car into a tree??

    Id row
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jim Bob about to lay someone out.

    Mrcat45
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    very sad am now crying in monkey poop

    Flare
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did it get up there?!?!?

    Anna Wu
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw a car in a tree a few years ago. The tree was downhill from a highway and the car lost control and flew off the road into the trees. Can you imagine how terrifying that would be?

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    Leara Bridges Brown
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was new to the driving thing MANY years ago and had to use my dad's TomTom to get me and mom to okc hospital and back. Leaving to come home which is nearly 9 hrs away the stupid thing had me lost in the parking garage longer than I would like to admit.

    Kennady Leon
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I LAUGHED SO HARD I COUD NOT BREATH XDDDD

    Robin DJW
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If he sucks his tummy in any harder, he's going to pass out.

    steven
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    even got the apple arrogance look down pat

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    #5

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fly me to the moon(edit:😅😅it was great singing with you pandas!! We should do it more often!!)

    𝕁𝕖𝕟𝕟𝕪𝔹𝕖𝕖
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let me play among the stars! Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars

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    Theater Kid
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whoops. I was supposed to go right there, not left.

    WholesomeArmyweeb
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “It’s only just a moon~” BTS look what you’ve done. I love you but you have impacted our maps

    Max Thompson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "We had a great trip, it was out of this world!"

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's to the moon it's correct

    Remind me where I am again ?
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "This is Ground Control to Major Tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare ........

    Chenandoa
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you wanted to go to the moon when it was not in your sky, it would have you go through the earth!

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    #6

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    Shadow4523
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    go home apple maps, you are drunk

    Geoff Rogers
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is sooo dangerous. Especially, if you're a tourist, it is nighttime, and you're used to driving on the left anyway.

    Kinslee Hager
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was this in Texas (idk) I saw la Madeline and I know its in the airport and in Dallas im pretty sure

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    #7

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    Sanaa Huffman Davadi
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *Distant sound of me telling karen its okay*

    #8

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    kkathleen517
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What are those words that are blocked out????

    nettie netwitch
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't get what words are censored here and why. (no native English speaker)

    WholesomeArmyweeb
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apple Maps way of saying “GET UR ASS UP YOU LAZY BUMS”

    Mia right
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BICH DOES THIS LOOK LIKE I AM WALKING TO MY FRIENDS HOUSE

    #9

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    Night Owl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Two of the signs were put there because of other Apple Maps users

    Seabeast
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We rented a Tomtom GPS unit to go with our rental car when we went to France some years ago. It did the same thing, kept trying to send us down one-way streets. We gave up on it when it directed us 200 km south to connect with a highway to take us 300 km north again.

    CatWoman312
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don’t use Apple Maps in Washington DC 😂 there’s a lot of one way streets there and Apple doesn’t realize that. I was lucky I didn’t get a ticket

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    #10

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    pbulvinas Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course not! They would end up at Google's😅😅😅

    Nicole
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they would die so they wouldnt have time to realize.

    Christine Didier
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think so or they would all be late or never make it to work.

    GVL
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No they don't. They use Waze.

    Denny
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They live at a dungeon under the Apple office. They won't need map.

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    #11

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    Your_local_introvert
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's odd that you decided to sell you phone (unless of course there was something wrong with it) because all you have to do is uninstall the Apple Maps app and download Google Maps. No need to sell the whole phone.

    Wilhelm Chile
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe he was fed up with the other features too and that was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

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    Pungent Sauce
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Google Maps and Waze can both be loaded onto your phone NP

    Julianne Masse
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES! TEAM ANDROID FOR THE WIN!! Although Google Maps has some downs. One time i was in the panhandle on vacation with my family, and we were looking for an Olive Garden bc we had pizza hut every single f*****g day and google maps led us to a dirt road in the middle of nowhereland

    Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s odd that you sold your phone. You could’ve just used something like waze instead.

    Jill
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We were trying to find the airport once and it kept sending us to the back entrance. Do you know how hard it is to drive around the outside fencing of an airport when you are lost!?!?

    Dolly Abson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Waking up to realize you've been hoodwinked and become part of the herd who is happy to fork over dollars that require repeated dollars consitently for every little thing or just because - and realizing - no - I don't need a new apple iphone every other year - to the reality of how inexpensive a droid phone really is. Priceless.

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    #12

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    KingSlimeV3 Report

    Sanaa Huffman Davadi
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude, you said take a down, then you said take a up. WHICH ONE IS IT DUDETTE!?

    #13

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    therunwaywitch Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better to be a full time lost than a full time loser😏

    Night Owl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like an easy job. Do they hire?

    CatWoman312
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You’re better off just wondering endless blindfolded than using Apple Maps to walk

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    #14

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    rnaisessential Report

    Joey Sanchez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you need apple maps to go to mcdonalds?

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't find it weird if there were McDonald's at the desert! In some areas there are everywhere!

    Triv
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're in a city you don't know.

    Ocelotty1
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    See they were trying to get you an Apple pie and mistook it for dessert

    Mia right
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Google like we ain’t getting that crap again

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    #15

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I picture a future where we will be so many that this will be the only solution! This is slightly better than "up your ass" which is the only solution in my country as to where to put your car!

    Max Thompson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that a closet hanger for a car LOL

    Night Owl
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A great way to keep your cars wrinkle-free and easily accessible 👍

    Sharon Vaughn
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where'd they get the giant hanger?

    mulk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Montreux Switzerland"... \o/ it's near my place!

    Jennifer Hargett
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because folding a luxury sedan would leave creases. And that would look sloppy.

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    #16

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    Mia right
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    GOOGLE I DIDN’T SAY TAKE ME TOO OPINION RD DID I??!!?!?!?

    Holly Freeman
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apple maps still suggests driving to my old house from work, which I moved out of 6 months ago and have since upgraded my phone TWICE (I’m clumsy 🤷‍♀️)... not so subtlety telling me Apple doesn’t approve the move

    WholesomeArmyweeb
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s saying “tsk tsk, Lauren. Alicia was a keeper. Go talk to her. No I won’t let you go anywhere else”

    #17

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    YoChicken
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Voldemort spent seven years trying too kill harry...Instead of making it weirdly complicated, Tom Riddle should have just put in his journal 'Use Apple Maps to reach the Chamber of Secrets!'

    Steve
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was the job finding Jimmy Hoffa?

    Chenandoa
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had someone have this happen to them...they were at least 6 miles away!

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    #18

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    Theater Kid
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Roads are overrated and really add to your total time.

    Mia right
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ain’t my fault u didn’t passed the 1st grade

    TheDragapultUser
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who needs roads anyways lol, apple maps always does this to me

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    #19

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well give it some credit! It's not easy to find ALL the wrong turns😅😅

    Max Thompson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey, don't insult the weeknd like that

    Jam
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Find the odd one out 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😂😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    #20

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    LunaMoon
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love this one. So true! 🤣

    Kitty Luna Darrow
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "All this is true, because it rhymes."

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    #25

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    Noemie Houtekie-N'Da
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For only an hour???? You could easily get lost in Texas for 4 hours!

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    CatWoman312
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it will keep repeating make a U-turn over and over

    Ethan Serna
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    O________________________________________________________________________O

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    #28

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    Kiss Army
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Roads... where we're going we don't need roads."

    #29

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    Liam_Foster222 Report

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