Dozens of vehicles are left in 'muddy mess of a field' after Google Maps offered drivers [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 26, 2019 | Staff

[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.'

[C19fan]

Yeap that is why I still use maps.

[NorthMountain]

The paper map may also show that road … and not show that it’s a dirt road.

[JimRed]

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

[glennaro]

Jeesh ... if it starts to get muddy then turn around before you get stuck! (Then again, if it's advice from Google then it must be accurate and in your own "best interest.")

[cyclotic]

My wife and daughter are in the middle of a 700 mile drive today. My daughter posted a picture of my wife driving and looking at printed instructions. She also has my dashboard GPS.

It drives me crazy when I’m following the GPS and she’s reading instructions, which are often slightly different.

[rockinqsranch]

The last trip to San Diego marina from Riverside the Google printed instructions went far, and away from where we wanted to go. Fortunately we had an old Thomas guide from the late nineties in the car, and found our way.

[lgjhn23]

Yeah. They’re try to steer you down a path in the upcoming election too...with a “muddy road” result.

[cyclotic]

And even though I use GPS, I have maps of several states in my truck

[EinNYC]

The Denver International Airport is WAY out in the sticks. I have no idea of what this “short cut” was. There are major highways all the way there from Denver proper.

[Retrofitted]

I stopped using it when I would tell “Assistant” to “navigate me home” and it kept giving me directions to a cemetery. Still don’t know if it was a threat or a prediction. My wife used Maps last week to try to get to work and avoid traffic; it routed her to Las Vegas (400+ miles away). Maps just ain’t that good for us.

[1Old Pro]

Google shifted their workforce from maps to Leftist activism and propaganda, this was the inevitable result.

[dfwgator]

“Recalculating.....Recalculating.....”

[Darksheare]

Google’s “single source of truth”.
Serious, look up their statement on single source of truth...

[Tench_Coxe]

At Google headquarters:

"Hey Sanjay, who was updating the Denver map the other day?"

"Let me check....somebody named E. Jean Carroll.."

[EasySt]

[taxcontrol]

Idiots.

I avoided that mess by going down to 104 and then heading east so that I could rejoin Pena Blvd further east of the accident. That was a basic go past, turn east and then turn north when you can.

[noiseman]

”I stopped using it when I would tell “Assistant” to “navigate me home” and it kept giving me directions to a cemetery. Still don’t know if it was a threat or a prediction. My wife used Maps last week to try to get to work and avoid traffic; it routed her to Las Vegas (400+ miles away). Maps just ain’t that good for us.”

Just wait until “AI” is controlling most of the cars on the road. Life will really get “exciting” then.

[I want the USA back]

What happens when you trust an app.

[Vigilanteman]

Remember the old episode of The Office when Michael Scott drives into Lake Scranton?

[momincombatboots]

Imagine a truck loaded with 44,000 pounds of stuff driving autonomously next to your family with this kind of intelligence behind the wheel.
Wonder what happens if a Trump stcker triggers it?