Posted on 01/23/2023 7:23:03 PM PST by george76
“They didn’t know where they were exactly, so the sheriff’s office assembled its search-and-rescue team and headed out in the sub-zero weather.”
With Google maps you can send a text with your exact location.
Some sent over cliff?
“Thankfully there was cell service — which is no guarantee in some parts of Wyoming — so the family was able to call emergency services.
They didn’t know where they were exactly, so the sheriff’s office assembled its search-and-rescue team and headed out in the sub-zero weather.”
Dozens of apps to give lat/long coordinates.
Waze.
;^)
Dozens of vehicles are left in ‘muddy mess of a field’ after Google Maps offered drivers a ‘shortcut’ to Denver airport..
I tell my daughters - “Don’t blindly trust your GPS - check the route, look at at Google Maps (or a paper map) and make sure it makes sense.” Do they listen? Pfffft.
I still do directions on Google Maps or Mapquest before I go and I carry a map book in the car. That way I can sanity check the GPS (or, usually, not use the GPS until I get to where I’m going and use it to find my actual destination).
Passengers rescued after Greyhound bus gets stuck on forest service road.. Greyhound says it is investigating the “rerouting” that sent its bus up a wilderness road that is accessible only by 4-wheel drives and ATVs...
22.5 miles up Coffee Pot Springs Road, an unpaved high-mountain road accessible north of Dotsero, Colorado .. There were 21 people on board including at least one female with heart conditions
https://coloradosun.com/2021/08/08/greyhound-bus-stuck-forest-service-road-glenwood-canyon/
Stupid bus driver. Last November I had to reroute around a closure on the I-5 Grapevine using my nav system. I stayed off the tempting shortcuts and stayed on major roads.
I’m stuck in the past. I use an old Garmin GPS to get me to distant destinations. And Garmin does the same thing. It sends me along dirt roads, through cow pastures, etc. It’s quite the adventure.
I think I’ve got it programmed wrong. So I’ll break tradition. and actually read the manual. No, strike that. Instead I’ll just stop going to distant destinations.
Nav system maps use the same data used to generate paper maps.
Google Maps were sending 18 wheeler trucks up jeep roads... tried going up the Fryingpan Valley and into Eagle via the Frying Pan Road outside of Basalt, Colorado and connecting with the Eagle-Thomasville 4X4 Road.
Monroe Dodd, who lives in Meredith, said they were driving down the valley and the traffic on Frying Pan Road was building up ... people up that high were probably reading something off their Google maps or something that says try the Hagerman Pass.
That mushy thing under your skull, it’s called a brain. Use it.
As I understand it Waze is using Google map technology. But I’ve used Waze and Google maps in similar circumstances.
You should only use Google maps to research your trip and destinations. But never rely on it for driving purposes. Use Waze.
For the last several years, my wife and I have been making a 60 mile round trip commute nearly every day. We always use Google Maps so that we know what the traffic is going to be like ahead of us.
There were several times when Google Maps erroneously reported that I-5 was closed and tried to send us on side streets. There was road work going on and occasionally there was a lane or two shutdown but the freeway was never actually closed. The error persisted one time for nearly a month.
I commented to my wife that this could probably cause a lot of confusion especially for people who were from out of the area and possibly waste a lot of people’s time.
Driver follows GPS off disused bridge, and wife dies .. Sheriffs in Indiana say that a man was following his GPS too slavishly and drove his car onto a ramp leading to a demolished bridge.
The Cline Bridge in Indiana has been closed since 2009..The car then plunged 37 feet off the now-demolished bridge... This bridge has seen tragedy before. In 1989, a section of the bridge collapsed during construction work, and 12 workers were killed.
https://www.cnet.com/culture/man-followed-gps-drove-off-disused-bridge-ramp-wife-dies-police-say/
If you want directions as to where I live, Google maps will take you on the “shortest route”. A route that might save you a minute, but takes you through some narrow back roads and some neighborhood streets. Instead of a much better highway.
I’ve always told people, for years. Do not use Google maps to get to my address.
Google might send tourists driving an interstate off an exit ramp into a high crime area - like driving from Baltimore to DC.
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