Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 02:50:31 +0000, Java Jive wrote:

Remember the German couple who drove off the end of a pier, and, IMS,
drowned, because their navigation app told them to?!  Or the Euro
continental lorry drivers who enter "Gibraltar" into their nav apps and
end up in a tiny English village that happens to have the same name?!
Didn't any penny drop when they had to take a Channel ferry?  Etc, etc.

There have been several fatalities in the US from blindly following
directions. Often it's nothing as blatant as driving off a bridge but the
GPS shows an unmaintained road that is the shortest route. Bad choices
follow.

https://www.oregonlive.com/editors/2013/04/
kim_familys_fatal_oregon_journ.html

I have been through that area -- in the summer with a full tank of gas.
You're lulled into a false sense of security since it's a decent paved
road to a launch area on the Rogue River. After you cross the river it's
all twisty gravel roads with very little in the way of markings.