If following Google maps is an indication of “fuckin stupidity,” then there are millions of fuckin stupid people driving around 24/7/365 who will never be in the news because nothing bad happened because Google maps is mostly accurate. But when it’s not accurate, believe me I’ve experienced it, things get scary.
When you are in unfamiliar territory do you use Google maps to get directions?
Have you ever gotten off the interstate or been outside of a city? This wasn’t a rare behavior that only occurred on a “wildlife trek”(whatever that is)
If I miss an exit and end up in a barren waste land instead of somewhere inside a city because of google maps my first instinct would be to turn off google maps and make a U-turn. No continue to drive past civilization.
Yes we understand but the scenario we’re talking about is when people are literally navigating already out in the middle of nowhere. GPS navigation gets sketchy out there. Sometimes reliable but not always.
You might test it again. I think they might not geocode every location anymore. It used to be that you didn’t enter a latitude and longitude and you could get directions pretty close to that location but then going out of Google maps and coming back in would send you to the geocoded location (center of school district)rather than the original lat lon.
Blindly following google maps without double checking and understanding how it works is indeed fuckin stupid. Software will always have bugs and glitches and people need to learn to work with that
Windows taught the ignorant that software will always have bugs and you shouldn’t rely on it. Most software doesn’t have bugs. Your antilock brakes work. Your cruise control doesn’t have bugs. Flight control computers in airliners dont have acceptable bugs and glitches. All you are doing is victim blaming.
If following Google maps is an indication of “fuckin stupidity,” then there are millions of fuckin stupid people driving around 24/7/365 who will never be in the news because nothing bad happened because Google maps is mostly accurate. But when it’s not accurate, believe me I’ve experienced it, things get scary.
If you’re travelling into the wilderness like OP says, and not using a proper paid GPS, you’re an idiot, let’s be honest here
Don’t event need to pay, you can use osmand
It is stupid when you depend on it during a wildlife trek
When you are in unfamiliar territory do you use Google maps to get directions?
Have you ever gotten off the interstate or been outside of a city? This wasn’t a rare behavior that only occurred on a “wildlife trek”(whatever that is)
If I miss an exit and end up in a barren waste land instead of somewhere inside a city because of google maps my first instinct would be to turn off google maps and make a U-turn. No continue to drive past civilization.
Yes we understand but the scenario we’re talking about is when people are literally navigating already out in the middle of nowhere. GPS navigation gets sketchy out there. Sometimes reliable but not always.
You might test it again. I think they might not geocode every location anymore. It used to be that you didn’t enter a latitude and longitude and you could get directions pretty close to that location but then going out of Google maps and coming back in would send you to the geocoded location (center of school district)rather than the original lat lon.
Blindly following google maps without double checking and understanding how it works is indeed fuckin stupid. Software will always have bugs and glitches and people need to learn to work with that
Windows taught the ignorant that software will always have bugs and you shouldn’t rely on it. Most software doesn’t have bugs. Your antilock brakes work. Your cruise control doesn’t have bugs. Flight control computers in airliners dont have acceptable bugs and glitches. All you are doing is victim blaming.