Navigational devices are great, but that good old fashioned paper map still trumps it. We’ve had two of them, and they both made mistakes, such as wrong turns, taking a longer distance and the worst is trying to put us on a road that does not exist.
My favorite story is a trucker that got stranded on a one lane only dirt road in the backwoods of the Black Hills. He relied on his device and got to a point to where he not only could not turn around or back up, but had no cell signal. Personally I’d say he was an idiot for getting off the paved highway onto a narrow dirt road.
For years, The Dragon had an additional danger (besides the road itself)--GPS would put semi trucks onto it because the route was shorter to get from Atlanta to Knoxville.
It was quite entertaining to watch those trucks try to make those curves.
Now, there are HUGE signs at Deal's Gap and at the other end forbidding trucks access, and telling them that their GPS is wrong.