# New App: Avoid the ghetto

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**Created:** [January 10, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-app-avoid-the-ghetto/262243 "2012-01-10T18:16:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-app-avoid-the-ghetto/262243/3 "2012-01-10T18:28:47Z")

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> [@Stimulus Payment Schedule - check yours](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stimulus-payment-schedule-check-yours/46338/199):
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> [http://theweek.com/article/index/223122/microsofts-avoid-ghetto-app-racist](http://theweek.com/article/index/223122/microsofts-avoid-ghetto-app-racist)
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> **“A new Microsoft technology that may help users avoid [“unsafe neighborhoods”](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57355325-501465/microsoft-avoid-ghetto-patent-sparks-controversy/) is generating controversy and eliciting claims of [“racist undertones.”](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57355325-501465/microsoft-avoid-ghetto-patent-sparks-controversy/) Here, a brief guide to what’s been dubbed the “avoid ghetto” app:**”
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> App is Epic. **People will pull the race card over anything though**

My GF actually sent me this link today in an email and that was the first thing I thought.

Bottom line is, if I can avoid ending up stranded in a place similar to Arbor Hill then I will use this app.

Buddy of mine and I ended up getting a flat tire in one of the worst parts of Buffalo and it was not fun.

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