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Although Google Maps is very accurate, it is also valid to question it!
The absolute reliability of Google Maps Directions is again in question, after a car with a family of tourists on board ended its journey in a riverbed. The Toyota was taking a route through a little-explored area of Kerala on India’s southwest coast, but as regular users of the service, they trusted Google Maps to pull off the adventure.
According to local media Car Toq, the Toyota was passing through the village of Kuruppanthara Kadavu and Google Maps took them along a creek which, as they advanced, had turned into a river by the recent rains.
Technology versus common sense
The car of some tourists in India ended up at the bottom of the river, thanks to Google Maps
The driver seems to have underestimated nature’s guidance, confident that he was into technology and far from common sense. He limited himself to responding cordially to the warnings of the locals to get out of the streamand answered them innocently with animated greetings.
So he turned his full attention to the voice of the virtual guide in Google Maps. Within moments, the vehicle was blocked by the flooding creek. With nothing to regret the Toyota was towed by a truck and despite the story’s happy ending, it left open spaces for users to think about.
In a similar case occurred in 2019, Unlucky truck driver was slightly injured when Google Maps sent him into a river in Baliafter following a route reserved for motorized vehicles,
In 2015, a woman died of severe burns in a car accident and the police concluded that her husband was so focused on the GPS instructions that he could not see the road signs.
Crashes caused by GPS devices and navigation apps are already so common around the world that they are referred to in California as “GPS kills”. Even in Indonesia, where there are more motorbikes than cars, attempts are being made to ban the use of GPS while driving to prevent fatal accidents.
No one is immune to mistakes
Although Google Maps is a common and accurate tool for dispelling doubts when navigating a route on foot, by bike, by Uber, by subway, by bus or by private car, everything fits into this world, and errors do not are no exception.
In other words, it never hurts to activate common sense to anticipate from time to time, on the sides or ask as if the destination was Rome. A basic rule is not to blindly follow the instructions provided by these applications, because Google Maps and Waze aren’t always right.
According to a study conducted by The Manifest, nearly 70% of navigation app users choose Google Maps because it provides better directions than most other GPS apps, thanks to its huge database, which doesn’t mean it’s not error-free.
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