XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/22/2014 5:38 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:   
   > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:33:26 -0800, Dimensional Traveler   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >> I once had map software on my laptop while I was entering St. Louis via   
   >> a bridge across the Mississippi try to tell me to take a left turn from   
   >> the divided interstate highway bridge a hundred feet up in the air onto   
   >> the riverside jogging/bike path below.   
   >   
   >       I had the NeverLost (ha!) system tell me when I was off the   
   > course it wanted me to take -- I knew of a shortcut -- to turn left   
   > and when I ignored that, to turn left at an angle of about 160   
   > degrees, then when I ignored that, a block or so further to turn   
   > right.  (BTW, I was on the major street in the area.)  When I got back   
   > to the highway that the original route went on, it advised me to turn   
   > left.  The correct direction was right.   
   >   
   There are all kinds of problems with GPS based directions systems and   
   software.  IME almost always because the map is wrong.  I've run into I   
   don't know how many cases of the directions suddenly becoming   
   effectively gibberish because the actual road was 50 feet off to one   
   side of where the map thinks it is and thinks you are either driving   
   thru buildings or cross country across the desert.  The worst instance   
   I've experienced the difference between map and reality was about two   
   miles (one of the SW desert states).   
      
      
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   hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
   methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate   
   wouldn't tolerate.   
      
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