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Dozens of vehicles are left in 'muddy mess of a field' after Google Maps offered drivers [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 26, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 06/26/2019 1:19:25 PM PDT by C19fan

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To: Vigilanteman

Yep.

First thing I thought of.


21 posted on 06/26/2019 1:45:49 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: C19fan

Those dumbasses will follow a stupid phone over a cliff.


22 posted on 06/26/2019 1:50:39 PM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: C19fan

WAZE is better


23 posted on 06/26/2019 1:54:23 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk
WAZE is better.

 

Google owns WAZE. They're the same thing.

24 posted on 06/26/2019 1:59:30 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: glennaro

I think that people tend to turn off their brains when they’re using GPS.

When you are at least somewhat familiar with the area, it’s easier to know when you are being led astray, but even if you don’t know the area, you should be able to avoid things like driving down a muddy road, or into a farmer’s field, or into a lake, or off a cliff.

Doing that requires that you pay attention, and think!


25 posted on 06/26/2019 2:03:56 PM PDT by susannah59
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To: C19fan

We have lived in the same house for over 40 years.

Maps then showed the road to get our home from the south just came due north. There was one problem. For fire fighting security, there is a locked gate about half way up from the south.

Whenever I saw a cop or firetruck parked or cruising our area, I stopped and got them to follow me to show how the maps were wrong.

When the first GPS units for vehicles came out, they did the same thing.

About 3 years ago that has changed. The current GPS maps show the closed gate situation.

Every once in a while something happens, and a vehicle can’t get to us from the south in spite of their GPS showing that they could.


26 posted on 06/26/2019 2:04:00 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (KAG! Keep America Great! Vote for President Trump in 2020! KAG! Keep America Great!)
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To: susannah59

How many of us have actually question gps and stopped to ask for instructions the old fashioned way, when in doubt? I have and glad I did.


27 posted on 06/26/2019 2:06:39 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: C19fan; All

So they failed to notice something was wrong. If these clowns were on a mountain road at 12,000 feet and google said “turn left now,” they’d be dead. Darwin anyone?


28 posted on 06/26/2019 2:07:03 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: momincombatboots

“Wonder what happens if a Trump sticker triggers it?”

That hands off to the “Brake Lights = MAGA Hats” subroutine.


29 posted on 06/26/2019 2:07:29 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: yldstrk

I got stuck in a construction zone today that didn’t show up on Waze.


30 posted on 06/26/2019 2:08:34 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: JimRed

“Four wheel drive and high ground clearance are a real advantage out there!””

Besides snow it’s probably the first time they ever had a need for that.


31 posted on 06/26/2019 2:10:26 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: C19fan
Imagine what will happen when Google's rebiasing team gets around to tweaking the Google Navigation subroutines.

-PJ

32 posted on 06/26/2019 2:13:23 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: cyclotic

My GF and her son drove from NC to Idaho last summer. I mapped the route on google map and took street scene screen shots of the signage at every exit and lane change they needed.

Put it all together in a narrative with the photos. The only thing they used google for on the road was to find lodging.


33 posted on 06/26/2019 2:15:41 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Responsibility2nd

Different algorithm

Plus you can select no highways, no dirt roads, no tolls, etc.. then it also gives alternative routes.

Trust but verify


34 posted on 06/26/2019 2:18:44 PM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

The last time I did that the convenience store clerk used google on her phone to direct me.


35 posted on 06/26/2019 2:19:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Responsibility2nd

Oh, had no idea!


36 posted on 06/26/2019 2:22:09 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: C19fan

I’m starting a new job as a security guard tomorrow. I wasn’t sure where the site is, so I went out to it yesterday so I wouldn’t be late for orientation tomorrow morning.

I allowed my GPS to just lead me to the site, since it indicated that it knew. I got to a point, where I was supposed to turn and it was going to drive me into a farmer’s field.

I did find the site in the end.


37 posted on 06/26/2019 2:23:38 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: susannah59

When you are at least somewhat familiar with the area, it’s easier to know when you are being led astray


Last week I used Waze to navigate to a shooting range I had been to a few times before, but it’s out in the boonies. Anyway, I knew the first part perfectly well so I ignored directions to turn onto a different highway. It then started hectoring me to turn around at every little street and road. Knowing better, I kept going, until I reached the flooded part of the highway and had to turn around.


38 posted on 06/26/2019 2:26:43 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

LOL


39 posted on 06/26/2019 2:37:21 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: hanamizu

Sounds like Google/Waze directions to my house.

While technically they offer a shorter distance - it takes longer due to narrow rural roads.

And then when the river is up over the low water crossing - you have to back track some 10 miles to get back to the highway you should have stayed on.


40 posted on 06/26/2019 2:38:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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