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PSA: My car's GPS tried to send me down a washed-out road in the Blue Ridge Mountains
I was driving near Asheville last weekend following my phone's map to a hiking spot. It told me to turn onto a gravel road that looked okay at first, but after half a mile it was completely gone, washed away by a mudslide! I had to reverse for almost a mile because there was no space to turn around. Has your GPS ever tried to lead you somewhere that just didn't exist anymore?
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spencer_wood1mo ago
Mine tried to send me down a private driveway that turned into someone's actual yard last month. The map showed it as a through road, but it ended at a guy's garage and he was not happy about it. I had to do this awkward three-point turn while he just stared at me from his porch. These apps really need to update their data more often, it's kind of a safety thing.
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angela_knight1mo ago
That's brutal @spencer_wood, GPS glitches are the worst. They really need to fix that stuff faster.
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wyatt_chen861mo ago
Man, that's the exact reason I keep a paper map in my glove box. Those GPS databases can be years out of date, especially for back roads. They show what was there, not what is there now after a storm or a landslide. It's like they forget roads can just... disappear.
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