On: Google Maps will tell if your taxi driver is off course to rack up a higher fare

[darkhorn]

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/up-to-10-years-in-jail-soug...

A taxi driver in Istanbul took the passenger from Asian side to European side, and then back to Asian side.

Google Maps will deacrease these crimes.

[shoes_for_thee → darkhorn]

Going from one side of a river (okay, a strait..) to another sounds more dramatic when it separates continents.

[crooked-v → shoes_for_thee]

It's still pretty dramatic. Compare to, say, a taxi driver going between points in San Francisco going over the Oakland Bay bridge into Oakland, driving around some, and then going back over the bridge back into SF.