• @LesserAbe
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    2310 months ago

    Have you ever rented one of those electronic scooters? I was visiting LA and riding one to Venice Beach. I knew you weren’t allowed to ride them in Venice Beach proper so I stopped about a block away to park it. The app said that I was inside the forbidden zone, so it wouldn’t let me lock the scooter. I thought fine, I’ll ride a block or two away. But it said I was in the forbidden zone, so I couldn’t drive it. I tried rolling it but the wheels were locked up. I started dragging it and an alarm went off the whole way.

    Later I was riding a scooter back to the hotel on a main road, and two times the system thought I had entered a no go area (despite just following the road) and the scooter lost power, although thankfully it didn’t stop entirely.

    Now imagine you’re on an expressway and this system decides you’re actually on an access road running parallel to the expressway, where the speed is 20mph instead of 65. That’s not just annoying, it’s a threat to your safety and those around you. I already have GPS making that mistake a few times here and there.

    Or imagine a solar flare or attack disables the GPS system, would that mean that all cars stop moving?

    • @[email protected]
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      810 months ago

      That’s what I was thinking as well. If Google can’t get this straight I sure as heck don’t trust whatever system the government will underfunded to make this happen.