Google Sends Superman A New Cape

Adam Darowski used Google Transit at the SXSW conference in March, and they sent him this way:

Yikes! Took him 90 minutes to figure out how to get around it, and he said then:
Um. Am I Superman? How the hell am I expected to pull that off? I was stumped. Here I am behind some warehouses in the pitch dark, trying to find out how to get over/under that highway. It’s a tangled mess of high speed lanes. I come across train tracks. Of course, I look to my left and a train is coming (of course, I was at a safe distance). But are you kidding me? I’m trudging all over the place.

Just yesterday, a strange package arrived for Adam: A Superman cape. There was also a handwritten letter from Joe Hughes of Google Transit, explaining that they thought they were delivering directions to Superman, and naturally […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg