The TL;DR of the first couple is they were on the way from Canada to Vegas. They turned off the Interstate onto a road that gradually got worse and worse until

The TL;DR of the first couple is they were on the way from Canada to Vegas. They turned off the Interstate onto a road that gradually got worse and worse until it was so narrow that they couldn't even turn around. Nearly two months later, some hunters in ATVs found the wife barely alive in her minivan. The husband died trying to hike out for help. On a more technical level, the article claims it was a Magellan GPS they were using. I've never used that brand, but I've previously used a Garmin GPS that was very good; it never tried to send me onto mountain roads or even inappropriate city streets. IMO Google Maps and Apple Maps are both much worse than my standalone Garmin ever was. As of a few years ago, my 8 y/o maps in my Garmin were much more reliable than the current info used by Google and Apple. I've had Google take me thru residential streets it really had no business in choosing. I've had Apple literally loop me around -> left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left. I stopped after two loops. I only did it the second time because I couldn't believe just how stupid Apple was. My Apple Maps experience was in downtown Portland Oregon just one year ago. So it's clearly an ongoing issue, not part of the initial teething pains which occurred when Apple dumped Google for maps.