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Google Maps suggests ‘potentially fatal’ routes up Ben Nevis, say critics
- DanielleMolloy 5y agoMh, you can see at first sight that what GoogleMaps returns there (check out the image in the article) is no proper route. What is actually surprising is that some people think it was a proper mountain route and tried to walk it. That is quite some blind trust into and misunderstanding of technology.
- beermonster 5y agoReminds me of when TomTom devices first became popular. Lots of stories appeared in the news at the time of people blindly following it’s instructions even if it meant driving into a lake, unfinished road, or off a cliff!
- malshe 5y agoReminds me of this scene from The Office where Michael drives into a lake: https://youtu.be/DOW_kPzY_JY https://youtu.be/DOW_kPzY_JY
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- randyrand 5y agoGoogle should put a big question mark on the dotted line.
- iudqnolq 5y agoThat's what the curved light grey dotted line means, it's as the crow flies for when they have no data. They should just make an actual key that explains their esoteric labelling schemes.
- perl4ever 5y agoIt seems very obvious to me. How could anyone look at the crooked line of an actual road or trail, and then see this arc and think it was an actual physical route?
- dewlinedew2 5y agoAlso if you are in Pemberton,BC in January and ask for directions to gold bridge, it sends you on a road that 1. Requires snow chains 2. Is seasonally closed along the way
- fourtrees 5y agoI suspect this is common across rural North America. Here in my corner of the east it's notoriously fond of sending unwitting tourists down unmaintained back roads that are barely usable even in summer. At least the foot of snow blocking the road lets them know it's impassable in the winter.