If the GPS says it's a road then we can drive on it...
A GPS device led a convoy of tourists as...sheer cliff.


-Blast

"Turn left - now. Recalulatiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnggggg..."


That's why I like to do the navigating myself. "Just follow me and don't worry" never turns out well for me.

I wonder what a car GPS does when you're on a "road" that doesn't exist in it's database?

that statement just about sums it up...

Someone needs to learn the difference between "position" and "condition".

Can anyone say "lawsuit?" I knew you could.

No one of us is as dumb as all of us together.

+1. Some folks never consider that situations might exist that their GPS, cell phone or debt card can't bail them out of.

Just one reason I pre-flight my GPS routes on a computer before I leave. The Mapsource software that has come with each of my Garmin receivers will link directly to Google Earth so you can see the same terrain from a satellite view.

Anything off secondary roads I go with my 60CSx which also has topo maps installed. Still, that many people with children and they blindly follow a GPS with no back-up?

Yipes. Shades of the Kim family.

I was in Boston one time, and my rental car had a GPS unit. It had an utter fit, lol, when I went into one of the underwater tunnels. "[alert noise!] You are off route. Return to route. [alert noise!] You are off route. Return to route. [alert noise!] You are off route. Return to route...". I finally turned it off and used my AAA map. lol.

Another time I was in Miami. I was directed to a smilarly named street (to the one I was looking for) in the wrong part of town. Really wrong. Like scary people staring at you from the front porch following your every move like a predator. Again, I pulled out my AAA map. "Oh, duh, I'm down by the docks. I need to be closer to downtown on this street here." Based on the map, I drove to the nice part of town and pulled safely in to a shiny Marriot. phew! ALWAYS CARRY A MAP (like I need to tell you guys that). And, um check the map as you go. Lesson learned.

Hey, I've seen roads in the database that don't exist or ever have in real life!

Never blindly follow the GPS. It's a tool, a good tool, but not an infallible one. I use mine everyday while out geocaching and it has gotten me into good trouble more often than not! <very big grin>

Never blindly follow the GPS. It's a tool, a good tool, but not an infallible one. I use mine everyday while out geocaching and it has gotten me into good trouble more often than not! <very big grin>


I question GPS being wrong more then 50%.