“I imagine other GPSs work the same. If you type in the wrong address, it will take you to the wrong address.”
Real addresses and those in the GPS program often do not match up. My 1 YO Tom Tom still thinks I live two doors down from my house. My daughter’s Garmin does the same thing. The funniest instance was about 8 years ago using a GPS to find Mount Rushmore. The thing directed us off a wide clearly marked road to Mount Rushmore, to a gravel road, then a dirt road in the back woods to a large boulder across from some run down trailer. We knew the GPS was taking us off course but just wanted to see where it would take us.
GPS Units can be very accurate as long as you aren’t close to obstructions like Trees and houses... -_-
No matter, there are multiple resources. Google Maps rarely if ever gets an address so badly wrong that it’s not on the correct side of the street — and you can print the map out. The GPS itself doubtless comes with a disclaimer that it will get any address accurate. Many municipalities require house numbers to be stenciled on the curb so that emergency responders don’t have to waste a lot of time locating the home or building at an address. Bank records will contain detailed description of the home and probably photos. Any conflict shedding doubt on the identity of the property should mean to shut the operation down. This isn’t even a SWAT operation where haste makes unavoidable error at times.
Someone will get so sued.
Yes, weird things happen with GPS. One time I had it take me the wrong street and the wrong address. Both of those were pretty obvious. I looked at the street sign and I looked at the house address. Wrong place.
But it still remains a fact that the guys typed in the address and the GPS took them to a house.
All they had to do was to look at the address on the house to see if it matched the address they wanted.
Can’t blame the GPS if they don’t look at the address on the house.