Posted on 01/23/2023 7:23:03 PM PST by george76
They’ve got one near me that’s supposed to connect two highways. It’s someone’s driveway.
Google maps also always takes you through the WORST sections of town in cities.
Without fail, it always showed the best route through Syracuse right through the heart of the most dangerous sections of Syracuse.
Mr. mm tries to use it when we travel and I hate it.
“Each was mistakenly misled to the same remote patchwork of untrodden tertiary and quaternary roads thanks to their in-car GPS navigation systems,”
So probably NOT Google maps. Some friends have “in-car” navigation
Built into their cars and directions are different from Google’s.
“With Google maps you can send a text with your exact location.”
If cell service is good in that location. Sometimes our navigation will be working, but talk and text show “no service” in some areas. (The reason we left T-Mobile for Verizon — better coverage in our area.)
We like to use Garmin with free lifetime maps and traffic updates.
In some ways it’s better than Google, and it’s worse in some ways.
GPS navigation is only good if you know where you’re going and it can “assist” you in getting to your location but if you rely solely on it you’re an idiot.
If your GPS tries to put you on a dirt road, just ignore it and keep going and it will re-route.
Same here. Google Maps is wrong near our place, so I always tell people to find the mailbox and then how to go from there. Now if they'll only keep from getting stuck on the access road, that would be great. I don't know how many times I've had to pull people out of the deep sand that lurks right next to the tire tracks.
What would cause it to act differently?
“If cell service is good in that location.”
In the referenced case they had cell service.
” Sometimes our navigation will be working, but talk and text show “no service” in some areas.”
Car nav systems typically do not need cell service. Google maps works without if the maps are downloads.
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