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You pick up your phone, set a destination, and press start. Instantly, you get the shortest path,
and without thinking about it, you follow. GPS navigation is practical, but is it always reliable? Many of us use Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze to get around, but for a mother it was too late before she knew it when she got stranded in a national park with no way back after following GPS into a remote path that became a death trap. Let’s get into it!
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Sources:
[Alicia and Carlos Sanchez in Death Valley National Park]
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/boys-death-in-death-valley-national-park-leaves-questions/
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2009/08/heat-claims-youngster-stranded-five-days-remote-corner-death-valley-national-park
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-aug-08-me-deathvalley8-story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32340356
[How Does Satellite Navigation and GPS Technology Work?]
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/communications/policy/GPS_History.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3RfULw7aAY
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ttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/gps.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_constellation#/media/File:GPS24goldenSML.gif
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[Google Maps Causing Russian Teens to be Stranded on Road of Bones]
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-frozen-to-death-after-google-maps-wrong-turn/news-story/13e10cbbc96494ee26e6dea29f4fb469
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[How Do Maps Calculate Shortest Path to Destination]
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https://youtu.be/t7UjtzqIXSA
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I was invited to a state park to hang with friends and was driving alone. My phone dropped to 15% with a ways to go, only to realize that my charger cable wasn't in my car (my sister had taken it out without telling me) my phone eventually died and I was in the middle of nowhere. I just kept driving until I made it to a restaurant who, while they couldn't help much, pointed me to a town, where I was finally able to call and state my location to my parents. They then pointed me to a gas station in the hopes that I could buy a charger, which charged my phone enough to get back onto the freeways and eventually back home.
I still haven't let my sister live it down.
imagine the cia hacking google map bringing the target to a killzone.
i went on a weekend hiking trip to Death Valley once. We had an offline Google Maps that showed us a path to the spring. The map ended up leading us to a literal ghost town with abandoned houses and shops. We drove for 10min and decided to go back to the main road worried about our gas getting low. Turned out to be the right choice because after asking other campers at the gas station and store, the springs were closed and completely at a different direction. To this day I check the map to see if I can find the ghost town because I do have photos of the place and remember the directions but it doesn't appear anywhere. 😨😨😨
One of the first times I decided to let a "maps" gps (Google, I think) was in the late 90's. I wanted to check out a Krispy Kreme (donut store) but just knew there was one in the large city I live near. So off I go. Drive up freeway, take a left, a right, etc. For some reason, the GPS knew that the Krispi Kreme must have been heavenly because (according to the GPS), the store was about 40 feet in the air between to bridges (that were over other bridges). I wasn't sure how I was to drive off the bridge, onto the air to the "invisible" store about 50 feet away.
The real store was on ground level about 2 blocks away from the "airborne" store's location.
Always use your eyes to see where you are going, whether gps likes it or not.
Recently drove out to a lake here in NV for a camping trip. Along the way our GPS tried directing us down several dirt paths that were rather obviously part of private properties. Knowing how "Shoot first, ask questions later" some rural folks can be, we used our better judgment and disregarded what Google was telling us. Always use your better judgment, people.
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I've had Google lead me down a muddy dirt road. If I didn't have AWD, I would have been stuck out in the middle of nowhere.
I remember the first time my gps took me to Death Valley. Never going that route again. My friend visiting me went that route and I forgot to warn them. They hated it
Google Maps told me and my friends to jump over a fence, and we did and found ourselves in the national defence base
Personally I practically never follow the GPS direction to go down any form of suspicious unmarked on anything roads without assuming out the GPS and following it to see where exactly it goes. I would have personally stopped at that road and messed around with the GPS and tried to determine whether it was a good idea to go down that road or if I should find an alternate route
so yeah me and my friend were almost sent off a cliff because of Google maps.
safe to say we just use the map and navigate ourselves now.
Navigation with gps could also be coroborated with old-fashioned paper map technology. Paper road maps can give detailed information on the quality of the roads.
We were once ended at the gate of a cemetery by following Waze for directions. Wazte of time!
Mine wanted me to make a left turn across two freeways in sam Diego trying to get to my property manager
There was no common sense
Do maps lead people? GPS doesn’t lead, it gives routes to where you already want to go. It’s the persons fault when they don’t look at the route before going.
Also many times people DONT follow the gps and make a turn because slow traffic or they didn’t want to wait at a light and the alternate routes the gps has to make usually leads to problems.
Ever seen a semi stuck on a narrow road? That’s because the driver did not follow the gps. Ever seen a
Google should just make it say “turn right on the round about and continue left….continue left….continue left…” and see how many people spend 5 mins going in a circle because the gps said so.
Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in every garden. Technology is fallible, especially in rural areas, I can't imagine blindly following a suggested route, when my eyes are telling me that something doesn't look right.
The only unforgivable death trap round here is Slough. Or Croydon. Or the North Circular.
Obviously if it’s called Death Valley, it’s likely to be more of a problem.
Look, they were heading to a place called Death Valley. What did they expect?
I was directed off the highway and it turned into a fence line along a far.ers field. You could see it had been a road many decades ago, but apparently was still in the data sent to them. We were able to turn around and go back on the highway.
There is no easy way to send in reports of bad situations like that that I am aware of…
Why is it that a lot of people wreck their cars by following GPS (literal "death by GPS" is rare although it happens, usually people just total their cars) but no one ever did so with a map? I find it hard to believe that everyone is an expert map reader. Why did some Japanese tourists try to reach an island from mainland Australia because their GPS insisted there was a road, but no one ever drove their car into water by misreading a map?
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So basically, she got saved by littering. How grandiose.
Until you stop when the in video advertisements I will forever thumb your videos down. The algorithm will eat you alive
The first story reminds me of Google Maps sending me to Nevada desert at least two times, one of which was something that looked like a dried out riverbed (too steep) and the second route I tried and got stuck in the desert. Then a couple of months later Google Maps sent me to a road through a forest on Vancouver Island which got narrower and narrower until it became a trail for probably two people at most. Then it sent me to a road made for probably only hardcore offroad vehicles. In all 3 cases a lenghty reverse followed as there was no place to turn around. Thanks Google Maps.