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Originally Posted by corjaguar
This is not to mention the many times the GPS led me astray on those back roads......
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I use my gps all the time, even when I am thoroughly familiar with the route as it gives me all kinds of valuable information, but I have been led into some really sticky situations by listening to it rather than just paying attention to the maps we carry in the RV.
I have been led into people's driveways, I was once led down a narrow road to what turned out to be a rickety wooden bridge that looked like it would not hold a car, let alone a Class A RV with a toad, I have been told to exit Interstates only to then be told the machine was "recalculating" and routing me back onto the same Interstate it just told me to get off of, and taken on very busy roads through cities when there were perfectly good high speed routes around the city.
I called Rand McNally (the maker of the gps) to ask why it makes some of these decisions and was told that there are gaps and bad data in the mapping database which I was told came from the US government. When the machine finds bad data it makes bad decisions. Garbage in, garbage out.
I really like the gps (I guess I am a gadget guy) but I have learned to ignore it a fair amount of the time.