Page 1 of 1
Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 13th, 2012, 4:35 pm
by lynchburgwildcats
Inaccurate, inconvenient, ill-conceived ... now add "potentially life-threatening" to the list of words being used to describe flaws in Apple's much maligned maps app.
Police in Mildura, Australia are warning drivers to be careful about using Apple Maps to find the city, which the app has placed more than 40 miles (70 kilometers) away in the Outback.
Calling it a "potentially life-threatening issue," police say the mapping system lists Mildura, a city of 30,000 people, as being in the middle of Murray-Sunset National Park.
Several motorists have had to be rescued by police from the park, which police say has no water supply and where temperatures can reach a blistering 46 degrees Celsius (114 Fahrenheit).
"Some of the motorists located by police have been stranded for up to 24 hours without food or water and have walked long distances through dangerous terrain to get phone reception," Mildura police said in a statement.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/10/tech/appl ... ?hpt=hp_c3
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 13th, 2012, 4:36 pm
by JK37
Blind trust of any GPS navigation system gets the user what s/he deserves.
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 14th, 2012, 9:52 am
by From the class of 09
JK37 wrote:Blind trust of any GPS navigation system gets the user what s/he deserves.
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 14th, 2012, 9:56 am
by flamehunter
JK37 wrote:Blind trust of any GPS navigation system gets the user what s/he deserves.
+1
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 14th, 2012, 10:45 am
by BJWilliams
I think his point is if you simply let the GPS tell you where to go, you should be responsible for the results. My wife and I used a GPS to get to a bed and breakfast on our wedding night and we actually ended up getting there about an hour later than we were supposed to because the GPS took us on a crazy route through Nelson County.
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 14th, 2012, 10:56 am
by ALUmnus
BJWilliams wrote:I think his point is if you simply let the GPS tell you where to go, you should be responsible for the results. My wife and I used a GPS to get to a bed and breakfast on our wedding night and we actually ended up getting there about an hour later than we were supposed to because the GPS took us on a crazy route through Nelson County.
Your GPS was just smart, it knew you'd have plenty of time to kill.
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 14th, 2012, 10:59 am
by PAmedic
ALUmnus wrote:Your GPS was just smart, it knew you'd have plenty of time to kill.
HEY OHHHHHHHHHH
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 14th, 2012, 12:14 pm
by LUconn
that was pretty good
Re: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly
Posted: December 14th, 2012, 12:37 pm
by BJWilliams
Well played...