An out-of-town couple drove off a boat ramp in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, after getting turned around by their GPS.
A couple, in their 60s, drove off a boat ramp into Morgan Creek Saturday night, according to the Isle of Palms Police Department. Police said they got confused while following directions off of GPS.
it happens more than any of us know!
ReplyDelete60 year olds outta know better. Unless they're Harris voters...
ReplyDeleteThe perils of using a GPS out in the country. My GPS brought me to a "low water crossing" that had washed out due to recent storms. We got to the crossing and I was suspicious. I walked out in the middle of the creek and the water was mid thigh deep and the gravel was still not compacted. Not being a complete idiot, I turned around and went another way.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I went to Scottsville from my house, my GPS had me traveling dirt roads and fording a creek.
DeleteStupid GPS but yeah open your eyes
ReplyDeleteI never had that problem using Esso road maps. And they were free if you got gas.
ReplyDeleteYou obviously never asked your wife to read a paper read map!
DeleteWives, like any other animal, can be trained.
DeleteWhile traveling in her car my kid showed me her gps. This was years ago. I told her to punch in a town. That gps said to take all these back roads that I knew and one was dirt. The milage was something like twenty miles. I looked at here and said just turn around, go the other way. That town is on the road we were on about ten miles behind us.
ReplyDeleteAlmost drove down a boat ramp in the dark d/t GPS getting confused. Moonless night, crappy Ford headlights, but the area in front of me just looked too...black. Stopped, figured out I was on a boat ramp, said a prayer of thanks and turned around. Google maps is pretty useless in remote PA and WV.
ReplyDeleteI've used paper maps for decades and haven't had this problem..
ReplyDeleteJD
A little farther south on Lady's Island (Beaufort), Brickyard Point Road has this sign at its end:
ReplyDelete"ROAD ENDS IN WATER"
IOP should consider one there. BTW, the "average" house there is north of $1MM. If beachfront, make that $2MM+. Its next door neighbor, Sullivan's Island, is even higher.
When map quest was new the printed steps to get to my house had you take a left on my street no matter which way you were arriving from. From one way it was correct from the other it led to a parking lot for the community park
ReplyDeleteWe carry Delorme maps books for the two states we travel most in every car and foldable state maps in the glove boxes. I like to have a bigger picture of where I am than a screen will give me. Besides, around here you can drive for hours without cell service and, as a result, I've done a fair amount of driving in GPS green space. I see the road, I know I'm on a road, but electronics doesn't know about the road. In general, the places without cell service are way more interesting.
ReplyDeleteInterstate rest areas often provide paper state maps
ReplyDeleteMy ex mother in law used to live on a canyon in San Diego with a major road terminating at the edge of the canyon next to her house. This is back in the 80s and early 90s, so pre-GPS and Google maps. For many years the paper maps showed the road leading into the planned bridge over the canyon that was never built.
ReplyDeleteConsequently, every few months someone from outside of town would come hurtling down the road expecting a bridge, only to either (a) crash into the berm at the end of the road (b) swerve left and drive into the canyon or (c) swerve right and crash into her house.
This went on for fucking years, and nobody ever corrected the maps. Always be looking out the windows, and never ever totally trust map or GPS.