Re:Death by GPS
by bmmayer1 on Monday May 09, 2016 @01:31AM
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This happened to me, in Guatemala. Was using a rental car Garmin GPS whose map had some serious errors. The worst was, driving at night, thanks to my brights being on, I saw the road drop off ahead and slowed us to a stop. It was a sheer cliff into a ravine. The actual road had been knocked out and a replacement road had been built 100 feet away. We had to backtrack to find it.
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Re:Death by GPS
by nathancahill on Monday May 09, 2016 @01:58AM
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Ay, what part of Guatemala? That's my home country.
Here's another story: Driving across Guatemala on the Panamerican highway during hurricane Stan[0] (although we didn't know how devastating it was going to be at the time), we saw half of the highway that we had just passed collapse behind us down the side of mountain. We were one of the last 2 or 3 cars to drive west-bound that day. On that drive, we also saw full grown trees sliding down the mountainside, still rooted and standing vertically.