why you shouldnt trust gps

81

Friends coming to town from northern ohio. They were following the gps directions. Gps told them to get off 80/90 in gary and head south. The drove 60 some old miles south before going wtf.

Claireack

We were using gps to drive to Whitby last week and somehow a very easy trip turned into an extensive tour of the North Yorkshire moors.

2 adults, 2 teenagers and a dog were rather bemused.

Cool Face Ryan

yea I didnt like "Blade Runner" either.


woops......wrong thread.

RECALCULATING.......


get it?

chadwick

real truck drivers never use anything but a atlas and the like. that said, gps is stupid. gps will get a commercial driver fucked up in a quick hurry, it'll send them into places almost impossible to get out of, like unmarked low bridges that drivers who are fucked in the head will smash into cutting off the top parts of their tractor/trailer.

gps is for lazy stupid people who cannot read a map. people need more challenges than the struggles of 9-5 office work. get off your fannies and travel or study geography. everybody knows gary indiana is directly east of chicago.

81, why weren't you out front on the interstate waiting for your buddy with your cb radio fired up and a cooler fulla cold ones?

81?

Cradles Broken Glass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo

chadwick

Cradles Broken Glass wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo

that is damn funny

off to the right of your video
these are real folks doing real shit, not actors doing a tv show
wtf :wtf:
http://youtu.be/a2QIH2uz3p8

chadwick

81's friends pulling up to 81's place
http://youtu.be/5mqCHEf37qg

Jokertt14

they might have to update there GPS .

The Waiting Trophy Man

Jokertt® wrote:

they might have to update there GPS .

That's what I was thinking. Mine is 4 years old now and even the city I live in has undergone a lot of construction in that time. I'm not updating it though- I'd rather just buy a new one.

PureandEasy

Friends of mine from Seattle were here for some Camden shows a few years back. They used the GPS to get them out of Camden to their hotel in Cherry Hill. They ended up in Pennsauken, which in some parts, is one step above Camden.

iluvcats

after we saw Brad in October in Baltimore, my husband was driving and it told him to turn right -- it was a one way street, the other way...

conman

my sister was trying to drive from upstate NY to Long Island, she ended up in Pennsylvania

81

i guess, they sort of get what they deserved for listening to a device.

funny thing is, they had visited chicago before. anybody with common sense would go, hey, chicago and toledo are on teh same interstate....guess i will follow that interstate.

wait, what, gps says to go south. i will follow it, even tho i know chicago is west and north once i hit the IL border.

pandora

my first real experience was in St louis seeing ED.

Made me crazy a bit but was glad JB was getting made at 'her' instead of me!

Indifference71

81 wrote:

Friends coming to town from northern ohio. They were following the gps directions. Gps told them to get off 80/90 in gary and head south. The drove 60 some old miles south before going wtf.

The GPS should have told them to drive through Gary as fast as you can.

81

Indifference71 wrote:

81 wrote:

Friends coming to town from northern ohio. They were following the gps directions. Gps told them to get off 80/90 in gary and head south. The drove 60 some old miles south before going wtf.

The GPS should have told them to drive through Gary as fast as you can.

Gary is where they exited the interstate and headed south.

Ledbetterman10

Cradles Broken Glass wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIakZtDmMgo

I was gonna post this but figured I should skim the thread because it was probably already posted.

rick1zoo2

I will need to remember to go to AAA and get actual maps of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio. Lately the GPS has led us astray, especially trying to navigate to and from stadiums. I don't want to end up in Lake Michigan

81

rick1zoo2 wrote:

I will need to remember to go to AAA and get actual maps of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio. Lately the GPS has led us astray, especially trying to navigate to and from stadiums. I don't want to end up in Lake Michigan

coming from PA, find I80/I90...whichever is closer. get on it headed west. follow that until it merges with I94. take I94 north into Wisconsin, exit at 333 (washington ave, aka 20) take 20 west to east troy. bam. done

rick1zoo2

81 wrote:

rick1zoo2 wrote:

I will need to remember to go to AAA and get actual maps of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio. Lately the GPS has led us astray, especially trying to navigate to and from stadiums. I don't want to end up in Lake Michigan

coming from PA, find I80/I90...whichever is closer. get on it headed west. follow that until it merges with I94. take I94 north into Wisconsin, exit at 333 (washington ave, aka 20) take 20 west to east troy. bam. done

sounds about right, now let's see if I have an actual pencil or pen to write that down.....

81

rick1zoo2 wrote:

81 wrote:

rick1zoo2 wrote:

I will need to remember to go to AAA and get actual maps of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio. Lately the GPS has led us astray, especially trying to navigate to and from stadiums. I don't want to end up in Lake Michigan

coming from PA, find I80/I90...whichever is closer. get on it headed west. follow that until it merges with I94. take I94 north into Wisconsin, exit at 333 (washington ave, aka 20) take 20 west to east troy. bam. done

sounds about right, now let's see if I have an actual pencil or pen to write that down.....

they only question that remains is do you take the first or second I94 merger.

first one is free, but a few miles longer, second one makes the trip shorter, but you incur a hefty toll on the skyway.

rick1zoo2

81 wrote:

rick1zoo2 wrote:

81 wrote:

coming from PA, find I80/I90...whichever is closer. get on it headed west. follow that until it merges with I94. take I94 north into Wisconsin, exit at 333 (washington ave, aka 20) take 20 west to east troy. bam. done

sounds about right, now let's see if I have an actual pencil or pen to write that down.....

they only question that remains is do you take the first or second I94 merger.

first one is free, but a few miles longer, second one makes the trip shorter, but you incur a hefty toll on the skyway.

that's not the exit in Gary is it?

81

if you do it correctly, you should never need to exit the interstate between the time you enter it in PA, and when you exit it at mile post 333 in WI.

if you get off in Gary, you have no one to blame but yourself.

rick1zoo2

I knew I should have turned left in Albuquerque........

RW81233

GPS has always gotten me where I want to go, but sometimes not the way I'd like to get there.

81

RW81233 wrote:

GPS has always gotten me where I want to go, but sometimes not the way I'd like to get there.

that's why i prefer maps.

having a portable map on the phone is great.

we have started using the system of i drive out of chicago, and swap back and forth on the way down, and she finishes the drive while i navigate.

works good.

RW81233

yeah the iphone is great for that...i also usually google maps a long trip and just write down when not to listen to gps. that is particularly useful when i drive to the outer banks and don't end up going through newport news with wife and baby.

Mamasan23

rick1zoo2 wrote:

I will need to remember to go to AAA and get actual maps of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio. Lately the GPS has led us astray, especially trying to navigate to and from stadiums. I don't want to end up in Lake Michigan

Don't use a GPS to get to Alpine - met a few people at a show there last summer that tried it and got stuck about 20 miles away in the middle of nowhere!

81

Mamasan23 wrote:

rick1zoo2 wrote:

I will need to remember to go to AAA and get actual maps of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio. Lately the GPS has led us astray, especially trying to navigate to and from stadiums. I don't want to end up in Lake Michigan

Don't use a GPS to get to Alpine - met a few people at a show there last summer that tried it and got stuck about 20 miles away in the middle of nowhere!

head west to IL59. head north on IL59, to US12, to WI120. bam.

that's my route

Dissidentman

81 wrote:

if you do it correctly, you should never need to exit the interstate between the time you enter it in PA, and when you exit it at mile post 333 in WI.

if you get off in Gary, you have no one to blame but yourself.

:shock:

How does Gary feel about this?

81

Dissidentman wrote:

How does Gary feel about this?

i'd guess indifferent....i mean, he does stink and all.