by "The Stig's former college room mate" (das-stig)
Published 03/01/2017 at 11:56
by "The Stig's former college room mate" (das-stig)
Published 03/01/2017 at 11:56
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I was on my way home last night and the mrs asked me to stop at the grocery store. From where i was at the time, I figured there had to be a better route than driving all the way into town then back out to the store (i was basically parallel to the store as the crow flies), so I googled it on my phone and had my phones’s GPS route me there. Sure enough, it had me turn down a back road and I ended up saving ten minutes. But at one point, it wanted me to CUT THROUGH A CHURCH PARKING LOT! I thought i was just looking at the map wrong, but a soon as I passed the church, it said “recalculating...” and had me make the next turn.
Anyone else ever have that happen?
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
03/01/2017 at 12:06, STARS: 0
If you were using Waze, you could submit that as an error. Parking lots are not meant to be roads and someone coded it incorrectly.
"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
03/01/2017 at 12:08, STARS: 0
Took my down light grey line, a sign said “4wd recommend past this point”. It started off as a 1.5 lane flat dirt road, down to one lane, more rocks, then the sign. It was night. I bombing though mud holes, driving up slick rocks, etc. All that with fwd & high performance all seasons. I’m pretty sure that’s how I blew my left front strut.
"McMike" (mcmike)
03/01/2017 at 12:11, STARS: 0
I used Google navigation exclusively on our cross country trip in 2015.
Used the “avoid highways” option a lot. Totally trusted it, and it worked out pretty well.
The gravel roads were unexpected.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/the-time-i-used-googles-avoid-highways-to-avoid-highw-1725592157
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
03/01/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 0
Before I got wise to Waze in its early days, it would want me to avoid stoplights by cutting through residential neighborhoods. Which I guess is fine until it dumps you out where you have to turn left across 3 lanes of traffic doing 45 and into the traffic going the opposite way doing 45. That’s not really a time saver. But I did submit that as a suggested fix and it eventually stopped wanting me to do it.
"Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
03/01/2017 at 12:24, STARS: 1
Google just led me 6 miles out of the way on a 9 mile trip, so yes. Google has been shit lately.
"Aremmes" (aremmes)
03/01/2017 at 12:33, STARS: 0
I once had Google Maps (iOS version) send me to the wrong highway exit and then turn around and back on the highway. I was driving from Philly to Pittsburgh and wanted to make the drive as short as possible for the passengers’ benefit. So, Google Maps decided that I should take the New Stanton exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and then when I had gotten through the tolls it recalculated and sent me back to the Turnpike to continue on to the Pittsburgh exit to get on I-376, costing me an extra five bucks or so in tolls. This sort of fuckup didn’t happen back when I used paper maps.
"Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)" (galileo-humpkins)
03/01/2017 at 12:40, STARS: 0
No, but I’ve had an Uber driver take me through some seriously unsafe neighborhoods on the way to Midway Airport in Chicago. Even happened upon a shooting just moments after it happened and the police were just getting there. That was fun.
Although, he was using his Uber GPS app, and it was directing him, so yeah, I guess I have. It just wasn’t mine.
"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
03/01/2017 at 12:40, STARS: 0
Circa 2007 I lived on a private road on a lake. There was a small town road nearby on the OPPOSITE side of the cove, and my GPS would always try to get me to drive across the water, I kid you not. Maybe it didn’t accept my private road? Or it didn’t use it because it was the longer route? But really, water shouldn’t be an option... I’m quite sure of that.
Granted, I didn’t exactly need GPS to get home. But when I was testing out the “home” location just to see that the system was working - or to start out a trip home from an unfamiliar place - this was the suggested route.
I really wanted to do it sometime, in the winter - it was totally possible - but there’s no easy place to get onto the ice in that area. I knew a guy who lived directly across the lake from an easy access point who used that route to commute to work once the ice was thick enough.
"Stapleface" (patrickgruden)
03/01/2017 at 12:57, STARS: 0
There’s a hospital my wife goes to infrequently for her continuing education credits. Anyway, GPS always takes her down a dead end road and asks her to drive through a small forest to get to the other side. It’s the strangest damn thing too, as it’s pretty much in the middle of Philadelphia. You’d think a major metropolitan city would be pretty easy to get right.
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
03/01/2017 at 13:16, STARS: 2
Google maps told me I had arrived at my destination while I was in the middle of the freeway a few months ago. I have another good one where it took me down a rutted out gravel “road” in Nevada once that I’ll try to find pictures of later tonight.
"smobgirl" (smobgirl)
03/01/2017 at 13:20, STARS: 1
Google in Puerto Rico was a shitshow. So many directions the wrong way down one-way streets.
Also I’ve had a few times in town where I’ve dropped a pin and asked for directions, and once you start driving Google has decided you want to go somewhere entirely different. Was headed out to pick up a water jug after a run and once it made me literally drive in circles for a few minutes before I stopped to re-check the map. It was routing me on a ten mile trip to somewhere across town from the pin when I should have been a mile away with two turns. Who knows.
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
03/01/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 0
I had it happen once where it took me to a given address in an adjacent town instead of the one I entered.
It was actually an area that was much nicer than the place I needed to go.
"diplodicus" (diplodicus)
03/01/2017 at 15:40, STARS: 0
That is why Michigan lefts exist. I mean not because of waze but so you can turn right into the flow of traffic and make your way over to the u turn lane.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
03/02/2017 at 08:44, STARS: 0
Where I live there aren’t enough roads to have alternate routes, for the most part. But I have found some beneficial time-savers if I go to the city. For example heading into Winnipeg from the west, bailing south at Headingly and hitting an 80km/hr, mostly empty road, instead of the 70 (or less) traffic light and speed camera riddled Portage Avenue.
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
03/06/2017 at 14:48, STARS: 0
YES, I’ve had it route me through an industrial park where I noticed there were signs saying short cutting was illegal. Another time I was directed onto a private road where I realized I might piss someone off. It looked like it would shorten my trip but I’m not into trespassing. I’ve also had it show me not even being on the road that I’m on. That has happened both with iPhone, Audi Nav system and a Tom-Tom. One of the worst times was because of solar flares messing with satellite signals. The GPS was showing I was driving 200-500 ft off to the west side of I-77 in North Carolina. It was constantly asking me to turn onto any side road that the GPS showed me driving near. It lasted for almost 2 hours of driving. I turned the volume down and waited for it to show me back on the highway on the map. It must have told me to turn around about a thousand times.
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
03/06/2017 at 15:00, STARS: 0
Since Google owns Waze a little of that stuff still exists even in Google. I once had it want me to to exit a parking lot , make a left across traffic, crossing the grassy median and 4 lanes of cars. There was no turn around area or intersection within 200 feet , not sure how it calculated that move. This happened in Hagerstown MD about 3-4 years ago