If I recall this was also how that one guy (The Asian fellow from CNET TV) and his family got lost. They were told by the GPS to take some road despite the fact the road closes in the winter time.
That was James Kim in the mountains of Oregon. He ended up dying of hypothermia when he attempted to walk out.
In my rural area, trying to go by directions given on Yahoo and Google maps or GPS will often send you down old logging roads - even abandoned roads - that show clearly on maps but no longer exist or are poorly maintained in reality.
In the United States if you are trying to get from City A to City B and you find yourself traveling on a rutted dirt road, you would probably be better off turning around and asking a local for a better route!
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