🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 days agoThree Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridgefuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squareDaemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down6·2 days agoA paper map doesn’t route by itself, differently from map apps such as Google Maps, HERE Maps and OpenStreetMaps.
minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·2 days agoIt’s completely irrelevant. It’s not magic. Blindly following directions without awareness of the situation around you is always your fault. A failure to block the road is the fault of whoever’s responsible for the road, but never the map.
A paper map doesn’t route by itself, differently from map apps such as Google Maps, HERE Maps and OpenStreetMaps.
It’s completely irrelevant. It’s not magic.
Blindly following directions without awareness of the situation around you is always your fault. A failure to block the road is the fault of whoever’s responsible for the road, but never the map.