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To: Salamander

Apple Maps seems to do a bit better; except when it tries to tell me a bike path through the woods is a full-sized road.


16 posted on 08/01/2020 10:40:29 AM PDT by DrGunsforHands
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To: DrGunsforHands

There is a place in the outback not far from me where if you follow both Google and Apple you and everyone in your vehicle will die.
They have the road going off a 400 foot cliff. I have submitted corrections to both but in 7 years neither has fixed it.

GPS doesn’t stand for going places safely.


17 posted on 08/01/2020 10:44:35 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: DrGunsforHands

I don’t think I have that on my iPhone...do I?

Worst of all is when “Rand McNally” [the perpetually directionally confused hubby] goes in cahoots with google.

Several years ago we were on our way to some forsaken sector of WV to get a new futon for the dogs’ sofa.

It got dark and we were headed up a nearly vertical mountain when “her voice” slyly said “TURN RIGHT YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION”.

I could still see well enough to know that a right turn was a thousand foot drop off down the stony mountainside, guarded only by a flimsy cable between posts.

So I ignored it and drove on to the top of the mountain where I could see dim lights, which caused hubby AND the map voice to start screaming in unison TURN RIGHT TURN RIGHT TURN RIGHT NOW!!!

Not today, Google.
Not today.


21 posted on 08/01/2020 11:50:17 AM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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