Apple Maps flaw results in drivers crossing airport runway

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09/25/2013 at 18:28 • Filed to: None

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An Alaskan airport has closed an aircraft access route because of a flaw with Apple's Maps app. Fairbanks International Airport told a local newspaper that in the past three weeks two motorists had driven along the taxiway and across one of its runways. Apple's app had directed users along the taxiway but did not specifically tell them to drive onto the runway. The firm has now issued a temporary fix. ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )


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Kinja'd!!! Blondude > ttyymmnn
09/25/2013 at 18:30

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Thanks Obama!


Kinja'd!!! D > ttyymmnn
09/25/2013 at 18:42

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what a time to be alive


Kinja'd!!! Takuro Spirit > ttyymmnn
09/25/2013 at 18:47

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Fuck, if that was GTA V they'd have their cars shot to shit before they got anywhere NEAR the runway.


Kinja'd!!! Brian, The Life of > ttyymmnn
09/25/2013 at 18:52

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Wait. Apple Maps fails aside, how in Hades does one drive their vehicle on a runway at all in this post 9/11 world? Shouldn't there be ... oh, I dunno ... some kind of fucking FENCE at the very LEAST?!


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > Brian, The Life of
09/25/2013 at 18:55

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You would think. However, I'm pretty sure that I can go to AUS and enter the airport through General Aviation and find my way onto the runway, if I wanted.


Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > ttyymmnn
09/25/2013 at 19:14

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I don't see a problem

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Kinja'd!!! Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > ttyymmnn
09/25/2013 at 19:59

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Are people moronic?

Almost as bad as some who drive into the water cause the GPS says so...

I rarely use my GPS, I'll use it to get to a general are, otherwise its just another app I don't use on my phone.


Kinja'd!!! Burrito de EJ25 > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT
09/25/2013 at 23:11

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Kinja'd!!! Dusty Ventures > Brian, The Life of
09/26/2013 at 01:29

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Because Alaska?