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"What if OJ Simpson's car chase had happened today, instead of 20 years ago?\nLike any savvy Californian, his driver and buddy Al Cowlings would've used Waze, for starters.\nSEE ALSO: Waze Now Lets Celebrities Voice Turn-By-Turn Directions\n\nA screenshot of Waze's recommended route for OJ Simpson, taken just after 6 p.m. on Tuesday.And knowing that Cowlings would have used the time-saving, real-time routing navigation app, he would've taken a very different route.\u00A0Cowlings and Simpson left Orange County near El Toro sometime after 6 p.m. on\u00A0June 17, 1994 \u2014 and they took the straightest shot, by way of the infamous 405 freeway, a route indicated by the pink line in the screenshot above (taken just after 6 p.m. on Tuesday).\nBut as you can see, Waze could've saved them a couple of minutes (via the blue route, above) by instead shooting up the 241, across Anaheim via the 91 \u2014 a short jaunt up the 605 \u2014 west toward LAX on the 105 and then hooking up again with the 405. (And if that last sentence sounds like SNL's\u00A0\"The Californians\" skit to you, then you don't live here because we really just talk like that.)\nSo what would Al and OJ have encountered during their Waze-routed journey to his home at 360 North Rockingham Avenue?\u00A0To begin with, the 241 is a lot prettier, with mountains in the background and expanses of scrub brush instead of dense cityscape:\n\nThe 241on OJ's route.Uh, oh, trouble! Waze is reporting an accident on the westbound 91 (Riverside Freeway) just before the 5 (below). But Waze always knows best, so it must not be too bad:\n\nThe 91 Freeway along OJ's suggested new route.Seems we got through that OK, so with the few minutes OJ was saving by taking this route, he could've jumped off the short shot up the 605 at Rosecrans to stop for \u2014 what else? \u2014 this In-N-Out Burger (below). Not a bad choice for your last meal as a free man \u2014 and also a very California road-trip thing to do.\n\nThe In &amp; Out Burger on Rosecrans just off the 605.OJ's new route would've also taken him straight past Compton; just jump off at Alameda and head South. Do it for the street cred OJ!\n\nThe Alameda Street exit along OJ's new route.At last, we arrive back at the 405 near Hawthorne and we're on the home stretch. By now OJ's cell phone battery has to be getting pretty weak, but there's an emergency call box there now, so he'd be covered in case his mom was ready to talk at this point:\n\nThe emergency call box on the approach to the 405 along OJ's new route.Jump back on the 405 and we're there! Home free, right OJ?\nAfter all, you're going to be found innocent, right ... ?\n\nOJ Simpson at a Las Vegas court hearing in 2013.Image: Getty ImagesHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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