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If you told your phone "hey google, take me to cabin trail" and ended up at a hiking trail, would you suspect it was the wrong place?
by causi 4y ago
If you told your phone "hey google, take me to cabin trail" and ended up at a hiking trail, would you suspect it was the wrong place?
- berkes 4y agoIf you "plan" an entire trip in wildlife with a single "hey google..." I'd say that you are personally very irresponsible and should or could be charged for any rescue operation.
- SSLy 4y agoI would never trust an AI designed in the pleasant SV to guide me in wilderness, no.
- stevehawk 4y agowhy would I expect my phone to get that right on the first try and not verify it? how lazy have tech people gotten that they blindly trust terrible tech?
- seattle_spring 4y agoI would sure as shit double check. Google Maps is awful at locating any trail except the most well-trodden. You'd be a complete fool not to double check, as the person in OP demonstrated.
- mannykannot 4y agoThat would be just a step short of driving onto the railroad tracks because your phone told you to turn right. And when I am going hiking on a route I had not been on before, I take a map of the trail and use it, especially at a time of the year when one should expect temperatures exceeding 35°C. If he had made his way to his intended hiking location, it is quite possible he would still have become lost, as the trail system there has many branches.