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I was on vacation in Utah last week with some friends, we missed our turn onto the gravel road our rented cabin was on. My friend was using Google Maps to navig
by shade 4y ago
I was on vacation in Utah last week with some friends, we missed our turn onto the gravel road our rented cabin was on. My friend was using Google Maps to navigate and said "oh, Google says you can just take the next turn rather than turning around" - the "next turn" seemed fine at first and then after it was too late to back out (no way to turn around), it became a rocky, rutted forest road. Even though we had a 4x4, it was the most terrified I've been in a vehicle in 25 years or so. When I checked Apple Maps later, it didn't even show that as a navigable route.
Anecdotally, a friend of mine in Oklahoma says he never uses Google Maps to navigate because it has a bad habit of trying to route him down unimproved ranch roads of dubious quality.
Personally, I usually prefer Apple Maps since it plays nicer with CarPlay, and while Ohio has fewer roads of dubious quality like that, my experience left me much less trusting of GMaps.