Mislabeled map apps for one thing. Seen it myself -- delivery and service people sailing right by, fixated on a phone screen.
No need to pay any attention to clearly marked addresses, because the app knows.
And people wonder how drivers will follow a map right into a river or other doomsday scenario.
Perhaps in this particular case the kid didn't have the complete street name w/ specific ending, so an app defaulted to the wrong one. No seeming need to question.
> And people wonder how drivers will follow a map right into a river or other doomsday scenario. <
Iām guilty of that. Itās just lucky that I got lost, and nothing worse. A couple of years ago I had to drive to a major city in another state. Never been there before. So I set the GPS, and off I go.
The next thing you know, Iām driving on this one-lane gravel road in the middle of nowhere. Forest all around. No houses. It was a āDeliveranceā moment.
It turns out that I had set my GPS to shortest route, as the crow flies.
Note to self: Pick the fastest route next time.
One report says hen didn’t have his phone with him.....
NOT buying THAT.
Most kids have a phone IMPLANT