An error on a popular mapping app has plagued two neighborhoods, miles apart in Utah County for years. Sick of food deliveries, packages, even vacationing renters going to the wrong place, residents decided it was time to Get Gephardt.
One of the problems here is that Utah County (unlike Salt Lake and Weber counties) does not use a unified grid system of addresses across the entire county. Orem has its own addressing as does Vineyard as does American Fork, etc. In Salt Lake County, even within different cities, the addressing system is uniform across the entire county - there are no overlaping addresses in Sandy that would be identical to Salt Lake City.
Technology only helps us when it works correctly. Always look at the planned route before following it. Please people. I love my maps app as I travel ALL over the US. Helpful to avoid major traffic jams, etc...but I always return to full map to SEE if it is trying to change my route to a "faster" or better option. I've taught all my kids how to read a map, and keep a mapbook in each car.
Lol, blaming GPS is a fundamental misunderstanding of what GPS does, all it does is transmit signals that allow our devices to calculate their latitude and longitude. It's the map applications that are responsible for correlating these coordinates with addresses.
As a sailor, I often found GPS to be off by hundreds of miles. In Florida, my companions decided to use GPS. That took us on a toll road with plenty of traffic lights. On a return, I was the navigator, using a visual map on my phone. It was faster than using GPS. A cousin died of cold because she and her friend followed GPS on desert roads outside Las Vegas. They got stuck in snow. He walked to get help. When he returned with rescuers, she was found DEAD.
Apple maps is banded for drivers in a few countries because it likes to send people off piers and the wrong way through 1 way streets, so using it for comparison is dumb. Google is generally good but still on the end user to confirm its the correct address.
That make no sense. Drivers still need to be observant. Driving off a pier becase the map says so is just stupid. Common sense definitely need to be a requirement for a driving licence.
I get that people from out of town would be confused but local delivery people should know that they are in Vineyard and not Orem and that there is something wrong with the map. But then again most delivery people don't really care about getting it right.
@@KTM22Ride a typical address in the US would be something like 652 15th St NE which means it's on 15th Street between 6th and 7th Ave. Another town might also have 652 15th St NE, the cross street would still be 6th Ave NE, but quite possibly a different street. So giving the cross street won't help the issue in the video. I don't know anywhere that have addresses in the format you're giving.
Just because the GPS says go this way doesn't mean you drive off a bridge that's not there I can't believe that guy would even let that be known that he did that I'd be too embarrassed that I was that stupid
Before you go talking about something you have no idea what your talking about maybe look into what your talking about. It’s actually pretty mest up what happened to this guy died! the main route he took was closed down to flooding. it’s was night time it was a bad storm, so he used google to redirect him. The route google took him on was a small bridge that had been closed. There was not one sign anywhere saying it was closed, most likely he did see it was it was to late. This was an extremely terrible accident that would have never happened if google updated the app like they are supposed to and claimed they do that’s why they are suing! Things like that shouldn’t happen in 2023.
