Interesting online plagiarism: "How 'driveable' is your neighborhood?"

Via the Smart Growth America blog:

"Clever" home selling site lifts the verbiage and hook from the popular WalkScore site and applies it to - - ready for this? - - driveability.

Bad enough to think any location in modern America is not "driveable" (face it: we're 15 minutes from everything) but the site also lifts its language nearly verbatim from WalkScore.

As noted on the Smart Growth America blog:

Compare DriveScore:

We’ll be the first to admit that Drive Score is just an approximation of a convenient driving to places in your neighborhood. There are a number of factors that contribute to DriveScore that are not part of our algorithm:

Street width and block length: Narrow streets slow down traffic.

To the WalkScore page:

We’ll be the first to admit that Walk Score is just an approximation of walkability. There are a number of factors that contribute to walkability that are not part of our algorithm:

Street width and block length: Narrow streets slow down traffic. Short  blocks make it easier to navigate           the grid.

The trifecta: short-sighted, dishonest and lazy.

Comments

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Not only that, it doesn't seem to work. I think it's an excuse to leave comment spam at blogs that talk about the walkscore site.