Don't trust GPS

[Inky_Wretch]

I understand that, but I'm much closer to Louisville than Ontario.

 

[YGBFKM]

I logged tens of thousands of travel miles without ever using a map and rarely made a wrong turn, missed an exit, etc. Now I have a GPS and access to all sorts of online navigation and not a week goes by that my directions don't get ****ed up.

 

[BYH]

I logged tens of thousands of travel miles without ever using a map and rarely made a wrong turn, missed an exit, etc. Now I have a GPS and access to all sorts of online navigation and not a week goes by that my directions don't get ****ed up.

I expect a similar post on a "Don't trust online bill payments" thread in a few months.

 

[Smokey33]

All those back roads/forest service roads are just very poorly mapped. Whether you use google or a GPS, a smartphone or whatever. It seems like half the forest service roads that my GPS thinks go somewhere do not. Plus your smartphone becomes pretty worthless on a forest service road out in the sticks with no cell service.

I was trying to find a hiking spot in Arkansas and ended up driving around some farmer's giant barn, looking for the through road the GPS said was there. The farmer came out, probably laughing at this dumb city slicker, and told me there was no through road.

Another time, a road that was supposed to lead to a cool spot in the national forest ended in the driveway of some backwoods mobile home. You really can't trust a GPS for the backroads.

 

[wicked]

I understand that, but I'm much closer to Louisville than Ontario.

Yeah, there is that. Forgot you weren't out on the west coast for a minute.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Another time, a road that was supposed to lead to a cool spot in the national forest ended in the driveway of some backwoods mobile home.

Did you hear banjo music?

 

[trifectarich]

I love my GPS, but there are those rare occasions when you say,"WTF."

I'm going to the golf course last weekend, one I'd never played before, and I know that when I get off the interstate, it has to be a left turn. So my GPS says to exit the highway and to then to turn RIGHT. Just out of curiosity, to see what it was going to do next, I go ahead and make the right turn; after 100 yards, it says, "In 400 yards, make a U-turn."

Stupidly frustrating at times.

 

[wicked]

I have a Garmin, and rarely has it led me astray.

One time it suggested a non-Interstate shortcut would save me about an hour, when in reality it added about an hour with all the lights. Otherwise it's been bang on, except for the whole driving-in-cities thing.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

IJAG, you should try some type of job associated with left turns only.

Oh, wait ...

 

[NickMordo]

I saw this on the news few days ago. Nuts.