Saturday, March 7, 2020

Interesting, how our technology can backfire

Particularly if one is willing to be a dick: "TRAFFIC JAM CREATED BY A MAN ON GOOGLE MAPS WITH 99 PHONES".

2 comments:

Spiny Norman said...

Where I live, in the SoCal high desert, GPS, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Whatevermap app, are not reliable at all, and will most likely send you down a dirt road that was washed out years ago. Or worse, down a road where some genuine dickhead has thrown a fence across the road (a marked county road!) and is damned pissed off, demanding to know what you're doing on "his property".

The old Thomas Guide map books are more accurate.

Spiny Norman said...

FWIW, when I need to find a property out in the rural parts (what we California natives used to call "the tulees"), I print off zoomed-in satellite images of the neighborhood so I know exactly where it is, and which roads actually exist in reality, rather than just on a map (or computer program).