OK, look - I'm as much of a GPS fanboy as the next guy, but even I know the laws of nature always overrule my GPS' suggested path...
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November 3, 2007
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hi,
i have a story somehow similar. i just followed the directed route and the road i was driving became narrower and with bigger angle, and the aphalt changed to stonr dirt.. and i was just unable to drive further becouse my tires just spinned and drifted... horrible situation and quite unexpected. finally i just got reverse transmission and very slowly drove backwards.. greetings :) ps. this was in Poland :)
Reminds me of that episode of The Office where Michael drives his rental car into the pond.
My grandson and I traveled from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon. I asked GPS software for the shortest route and was directed through an Indian Reservation; no cell phone towers, no villages and no gas stations. After traveling for an hour on a reasonable 2 lane highway the GPS said to turn onto a road that didn't exist. Turns out no roads over to the Grand Canyon. The GPS software relied upon old, no-longer existent government roads. I was lucky that I could return to my turnoff before I ran out of gas. Dangerous. At the gas station, he was incredulous; said you needed a 4-wheel vehicle to even have a chance to go across the reservation to the Grand Canyon.
I was told by someone else that a car went flying off a road at night into a river at the end of a downhill run; turns out the GPS forgot to tell the driver he was supposed to take a ferry at the dock.
Gary
I, too, am a GPS fanboy. But I learned long ago that the single best technological adjunct to a good GPS unit is a functioning pair of human eyes.
My GPS (a Garmin Nuvi 350) has various vehicle types. I was playing with it one day and left it in "bicycle" mode. On my next trip, I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't put me on a limited-access highway. I wonder if having a "big-ass truck" for a vehicle type might have helped this guy.
TomTom6 navigate me to the city center of Vaduz, Liechtenstein. In this case, city center really means it, at 3am after alot of turn left/turn right on quite small road I ended into a nice area surrounder by flowers, nice shopping stores and a verry pedestrian area. No clue how they mapped that road.
Ford is a big loada crud u guys, dont buy one
After being directed away from the simple I-89 Interstate in Vermont, my daughter was guided by her GPS to a Class-4 logging road that no cars use - it is a one lane mud road. She has 4 wheel drive but this is like driving across a pasture in the dark of night. No homes on the road. She slid into a ditch, stranded. Vermont is famous for poor cell reception but after climbing a hill she got AAA and they said they would have someone there within 45 minutes. That was at 7 pm. It is now 2:45 am and she is on the interstate again, thanks to a team of state troopers who had to go in on foot - that's the kind of "road" this is. The AAA guy also got stuck before he even reached her. If you look at a map, there is a marked road there with a name, but it is not for cars. The troopers say this happens almost every week - someone, following their GPS ends up in the ditch, directed to that road by the GPS. I am so upset, naturally (daughter alone for 3+ hours in the middle of winter in Vermont) that I want to sue Nuvi. I have had it tell me similaar nonesense but I have gone WAY back in techno terms and looked at a recent paper map to see what's being asked of me. By that time, you know what, let's chuck it out the window. This is a serious safety hazard. Who cares if it shaves time off a route in the city? It always wants me to go through NYC coming north from PA and everyone know that is insane. Argh.