You’d be amazed how many people blindly follow GPS systems. On a divided highway near our plant, there is a giant exit posted with our street name. at least 2-3 times per week, I get a call from some delivery driver wanting directions because he passed right by it because his GPS system was telling him to do so.
The GPS may not be entirely to blame. The quickest route from either Detroit or Flint to upstate New York or Vermont is Highway 401 acrosss Ontario with a branch to the Queen Elizabeth Way for Buffalo or to the Thousand Islands bridge for Syracuse or Vermont.
GPS’s take you through the skanky section of town, every time, without fail.
There ought to be an option to avoid them, just like avoiding highways.