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Too bad, love Garmin’s products, if you ever have to make a detour someplace where the cell service isn’t great you want to have one of their GPS units. I don’t

Too bad, love Garmin’s products, if you ever have to make a detour someplace where the cell service isn’t great you want to have one of their GPS units. I don’t trust any phone apps outside of a major city. But sounds like they have some serious IT issues if hackers can cause this much disruption, you would think there should be some compartmentalization between the personal and professional products, between manufacturing and web presence. You can bet there will be after.

sukilot 6y ago
What's wrong with offline maps on a phone?
- petee 6y ago
  Some Garmin devices can receive traffic data via radio, which your phone can't do. Garmin also usually has business names and gas stations, whereas I've found Google maps offline will only let you navigate to a specific address (Android), and it's reliant on you remembering to store the map offline. If you found yourself in an area without signal, and you didn't pre-save, you'd be screwed, which I've had happen plenty of times. Personally I use offline maps, but only on specific trips where I know for sure I'll have no data
  - zxcvbn4038 6y ago
    It’s one of those always be prepared things - I was making a routine trip through Albuquerque once where just outside of Tucumcari I encountered a traffic jam from a huge crash up involving many vehicles and fatalities that ended up closing both directions of the interstate for ten hours. I managed to get off onto a farm road and found path around the accident - fifty or sixty miles of two and one lane farm roads, barely populated, at dusk. Passed more rabbits then cars. Twice I had to get out and check what was on the other side of the hill I was about to drive over. But turns out they were real roads and I made it To Albuquerque in time for a really late dinner at Waffle House. The interstate opened back up about six hours later. Would I ever have attempted that with only a phone? Never. If my route got cleared for any reason I’d have been in a bad situation. I don’t trust a phone app would have downloaded enough information to even compute an epic detour like that - I went well over thirty miles away from the original route before reaching the road that went back.
Stevvo 6y ago
It's quite likely that compartmentalization exists, but their response to the attack was to turn everything off until they could figure out how to proceed.

sukilot 6y ago

What's wrong with offline maps on a phone?

petee 6y ago
Some Garmin devices can receive traffic data via radio, which your phone can't do. Garmin also usually has business names and gas stations, whereas I've found Google maps offline will only let you navigate to a specific address (Android), and it's reliant on you remembering to store the map offline. If you found yourself in an area without signal, and you didn't pre-save, you'd be screwed, which I've had happen plenty of times. Personally I use offline maps, but only on specific trips where I know for sure I'll have no data
- zxcvbn4038 6y ago
  It’s one of those always be prepared things - I was making a routine trip through Albuquerque once where just outside of Tucumcari I encountered a traffic jam from a huge crash up involving many vehicles and fatalities that ended up closing both directions of the interstate for ten hours. I managed to get off onto a farm road and found path around the accident - fifty or sixty miles of two and one lane farm roads, barely populated, at dusk. Passed more rabbits then cars. Twice I had to get out and check what was on the other side of the hill I was about to drive over. But turns out they were real roads and I made it To Albuquerque in time for a really late dinner at Waffle House. The interstate opened back up about six hours later. Would I ever have attempted that with only a phone? Never. If my route got cleared for any reason I’d have been in a bad situation. I don’t trust a phone app would have downloaded enough information to even compute an epic detour like that - I went well over thirty miles away from the original route before reaching the road that went back.

Stevvo 6y ago

It's quite likely that compartmentalization exists, but their response to the attack was to turn everything off until they could figure out how to proceed.