It seems that using Fastclick.js causes the issues the the Place Autocomplete Service from google maps.
A fix is to add the 'needsclick' class to the dom nodes that is inserted from the autocomplete feature, however, I am unable to get access to the inserted nodes from the autocomplete service. I've tried writing a directive and get errors saying the node is undefined. I am trying to do this without Jquery so found this hack:
The hack works as I am able to modify any other dom element. I just can't modify .pac-container and its child elements.