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Nearly 100 drivers following Google Maps detour get stuck in muddy Colorado field
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:40 am
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:40 am
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DENVER – Technology isn’t always foolproof, as about 100 Colorado drivers learned when Google Maps offered them a supposedly quick way out of a traffic jam.
A crash on Peña Boulevard, a road leading to Denver International Airport, prompted the app to take drivers on a detour on Sunday.
But it was too good to be true.
The alternate route took drivers down a dirt road that rain had turned into a muddy mess, and cars started sliding around.
Some vehicles couldn’t make it through the mud, and about 100 others became trapped behind them.
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Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:41 am to Darth_Vader
i've seen this episode of the office
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:42 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:42 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:43 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:43 am to Darth_Vader
Damnit. Someone beat me to it
This post was edited on 6/27/19 at 9:44 am
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:43 am to Darth_Vader
Someone should sue Google so they drop the maps app
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:50 am to Darth_Vader
And also not reported nearly 99/100 of those drivers were high as shite.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:50 am to Darth_Vader
didn't they legalize weed?
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:50 am to Darth_Vader
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detour
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out of a traffic jam.
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down a dirt road
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rain
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muddy
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sliding around.
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too good to be true.
I just wrote a bro country song
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:52 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:55 am to Hangover Haven
twice gps mapping has lead me to travel 4 wheel drive only roads with no turn around.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 9:57 am to Trevaylin
Happened to me in Arizona. It took me down some dirt road that was basically a ditch in the middle of Tuscon, in a rental car.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:01 am to Darth_Vader
I had to take somebody to DIA Sunday morning. That actually could have been me.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:05 am to MountainTiger
I flew out of DIA on Sunday morning. This could've been me!
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:06 am to Darth_Vader
Happened to me before using Garmin as well. Decided to try it on the way home to La for a weekend, just to check it out. It had me take a new road, cool, a shortcut I never knew. Turn here, turn here, turn there. It got more and more sketchy as we went along, dudes on porches with no shirts and cars in the yard. Road went from paved, to gravel, to a wooden bridge, to dirt, then to grass. It all ended when we came up to a locked gate.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:09 am to Polycarp
Does NO ONE even look at a map or have any general idea of any area anymore??
They are that dependent on a computer map to get anywhere?? You should have some idea where you are and pay a little attention...........right???
Idiots!
They are that dependent on a computer map to get anywhere?? You should have some idea where you are and pay a little attention...........right???
Idiots!
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:25 am to Darth_Vader
I had a GPS direct me down a dry creek bed once, I however, found an alternate route because my brain functions normally which is more than I can say for these poor bastids.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:26 am to dirtbag lsu
Exactly, do you not zoom out and scroll around it to get a general idea of what roads you're going down and turns you take. I never just blindly follow the GPS.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 10:28 am to Darth_Vader
Go to Ireland, drive and bleebe dat GPS.
All day long erry day.
All day long erry day.
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