A weird Google Maps glitch drove holiday traffic to the brink for hours
It wasn't even the first time this month

Imagine leaving the suburbs to visit a nearby major city, only for your traffic app to warn that nearly every major highway to your destination is closed. That's the horror story thousands of German residents woke up to Thursday, as a mysterious Google Maps miscue marked dozens of major thoroughfares impassable when, in reality, no such closures existed.