05-31-2023, 04:29 PM (This post was last modified: 06-03-2023, 09:05 PM by Or1on.)
It happened again. A motorist on Hawaii island drives directly into the boat harbor and yet again blames it on GPS directions. What is going on here?!
Okay I accept the probability of computer error and the GPS voice telling the driver to take the next left but wtf?! Aren't they aware of their surroundings? Aren't they looking as their car is about go down a ramp and enter the water? Is this just extreme stupidity or something more?
If it is just extreme idiocy, there ought to be a system in place similar to DUI where if you f***-up on a level this grand, your license should be revoked for a period of time and tests need to be taken and passed to earn it back and prove you aren't a danger to others out there and deserve to be out on the road again. Hash-tag keep-idiots-off-the-road
It used to be that anybody using GPS to find our house was sent to a non-descript place on a different road. Because of this, we would give explicit instructions "do not use GPS to find our house, follow these SIMPLE driving directions". Invariably, they would call us, lost, saying "GPS says I'm at your address, but I don't see a driveway here. What should we do?"
I don't know, because I don't know where you are. Return to the highway and follow the simple directions we gave you.
Eventually I figured out that Google maps had our address correct, but for some reason thought our driveway was on the road behind us. Which doesn't make sense because that would require our driveway to plow through somebody else's property, but whatever. I used the "correct the map" feature and a few days later android GPS could take people to our address and somehow magically, so did iPhone about a week later.
I wonder if anybody has used the "correct the map" feature to show that the boat ramp isn't a road?
(05-31-2023, 07:02 PM)terracore, I had several "interesting" trips around the island when the person I was with ensured me that their GPS would get us there with out me having to tell them..... We all know how that turns out!! LOL Wrote: It used to be that anybody using GPS to find our house was sent to a non-descript place on a different road. Because of this, we would give explicit instructions "do not use GPS to find our house, follow these SIMPLE driving directions". Invariably, they would call us, lost, saying "GPS says I'm at your address, but I don't see a driveway here. What should we do?"
I don't know, because I don't know where you are. Return to the highway and follow the simple directions we gave you.
Eventually I figured out that Google maps had our address correct, but for some reason thought our driveway was on the road behind us. Which doesn't make sense because that would require our driveway to plow through somebody else's property, but whatever. I used the "correct the map" feature and a few days later android GPS could take people to our address and somehow magically, so did iPhone about a week later.
I wonder if anybody has used the "correct the map" feature to show that the boat ramp isn't a road?
(05-31-2023, 07:30 PM)Or1on Wrote: But where are their eyes? Ciri or Roberta or Alexa or whatever says, "next left" and they just gun it strait into the water like sheep?
The driver did state that she thought the water was a big puddle.
After living in the Acres for 25 years I can somewhat relate!
OMG.
Would insurance pay for such a monumentally stupid act?
I’m thinking NO.
It gives one pause to consider how many nincompoops in this country are gripping a steering wheel, or firearm for that matter, at any given moment.
