Even if Death Valley managers now are adding heat danger warnings to dozens of new wayside exhibits...
There have been time in the wood when I could have sworn my Garmin was wrong. It never was. You can always trust a GPS to tell you exactly where you are. It’s the software the tells how to get from a to b that you can’t always trust.
GPS is nice to have but only if you know where you’re going or at a minimum the general direction. Never rely on them.
I’ve used them a few times with “no avoidances” selected just for the hell of it and some of the roads, if you could call them that, have been real interesting. Thankfully I had 4WD.
I, for one, can’t wait for driverless cars so I won’t ever have to think again! /s
if everyone just deleted their gps programs in favor of tinder, there would be more love and less death in the desert... :-)
Morons. A $75 hand held GPS would have guided them out correctly. At least kept them from walking in the wrong direction. I would never use a vehicle affixed GPS. Its totally reliant on the vehicle.
Too stupid to know what’s 10 feet past her nose.
A couple years ago in the Volvo Ocean race a 65 high performance sailing yacht helmed by expert sailors plowed a reef at high speed in the dead of night. They all got lucky and lived. But the REASON it happened is they were using an electronic map and when you zoom it out just one notch too far the smaller details... like a reef... are oh so helpfully removed. With a paper map showing all the detail all the time they would have been fine.