Posted on 06/26/2019 1:19:25 PM PDT by C19fan
Dozens of vehicles struggled through a 'muddy mess' of a road on Sunday after they followed directions from Google Maps that offered a short cut to the Denver International Airport.
Connie Monsees, a Highlands Ranch native, used her Google maps app to divert around a traffic jam on Pena Boulevard on Sunday. She soon wound up on the muddy off-road.
'It eventually took me to a road that...became dirt,' Monsees explained on an ABC News podcast. 'I was not the only one, there was probably a hundred cars out there.'
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Yep.
First thing I thought of.
Those dumbasses will follow a stupid phone over a cliff.
WAZE is better
Google owns WAZE. They're the same thing.
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!
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.
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.
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?
“Wonder what happens if a Trump sticker triggers it?”
That hands off to the “Brake Lights = MAGA Hats” subroutine.
I got stuck in a construction zone today that didn’t show up on Waze.
“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.
-PJ
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.
Different algorithm
Plus you can select no highways, no dirt roads, no tolls, etc.. then it also gives alternative routes.
Trust but verify
The last time I did that the convenience store clerk used google on her phone to direct me.
Oh, had no idea!
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.
When you are at least somewhat familiar with the area, it’s easier to know when you are being led astray
LOL
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.
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