GPS Mistakes
Posted on | August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
Before I talk about this one, watch this news story.
A couple of years ago, I was doing this exact thing with my GPS.
I was travelling from the Boise, Idaho area to a little town called Halfway, Oregon. If you look carefully on this map, you will see that the best way is to go to Baker City, then hang a right.
Well the GPS decided to take me off the freeway at Huntington, then take a long dirt road up the side of the Snake River.
Now in the best of times, this would have been bad. There is nothing quite like driving on a dirt road for 40 miles. In my case, there were a couple of factors that made my situation precarious. First, the check engine light came on the the engine started to sputter a bit. Second, there was no cell phone service. Third, no one knew where I was. Fourth, it was getting dark.
I don’t know if you remember or not, but there was a news story about a little family from San Francisco that got lost near Grants Pass, Oregon in the middle of a blizzard. They stayed where they were for a couple of days, then the husband took off to find help. Authorities found the wife and baby alive, but the husband didn’t make it. Well, that news story happened about a week before this trip.
So let me summarize, no cell phone, car running badly, 40 miles from anywhere, winter, no one knows where I am, I’m all by myself, its getting dark, and somebody else just died doing the same thing. Fortunately, the car made it to Halfway and I was saved. But I will never blindly trust a GPS system ever again. There is nothing that compares to just using your head that God gave you.
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May 8th, 2011 @ 1:47 pm
I totally agree with you and just today I read an article about a woman who had been found but her husband was still missing. They were on the way to Las Vegas and ended up on a logging road or something between Idaho and Nevada. Lost since end of March!! The husband is still missing. People should never trust a GPS!