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Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed
First time accepted submitter jsherring writes "Police in Victoria, Australia warn that Apple's glitch-filled Maps app could get someone killed, after motorists looking for the Victorian city of Mildura were instead guided to a wilderness area. Relying on Apple Maps to navigate through rural Australia seems rather foolish but it has become common practice to rely on GPS navigation. Besides reverting to google maps, perhaps Apple should provide strong warnings to use other navigation sources if navigating to remote locations."
iLost? *ducks*
Apple would be leading us out of the wilderness, not into it!
Oh my... Now I can't stop picturing a naughty Siri giving me turn by turn navigation in the middle of nowhere.
"Take the next right."
[Stops and scratches head upon seeing it's a dirt road.]
"For real. Get onto that dirt road."
[Proceeds and drives a few miles.]
"At the next kangaroo, turn left."
[WTF?!?]
No there aren't any crocs in that location but there are drop bears.
You obviously haven't driven in Australia much.. Google maps [google.com] See how you are driving through national parks and farmland before getting back to an urban area? Well Apple maps just takes you through a different national park and dumps you there. 45C is also 113F. And there is no phone reception or water.
Personally I haven't driven in Australia at all - I've only been there once. However, even as an ignorant Pom I'd assume that, when venturing outside of a city, its the sort of place where you take carrying water and emergency gear, keeping your car maintained, carrying reputable maps and planning your journey carefully rather seriously.
Methinks someone who takes the attitude "Its 1000 miles to Wongamonga, we've got half a tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark, we're wearing sunglasses and we've got GPS - hit it!" is an accident waiting to happen.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Methinks someone who takes the attitude "Its 1000 miles to Wongamonga, we've got half a tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark, we're wearing sunglasses and we've got GPS - hit it!" is an accident waiting to happen.
You clearly haven't driven in Australia ... that would be 1,600 kilometres, you wouldn't leave with only half a pack of cigarettes and where's the booze?
sheepfuckers? think you are confusing new Zealand with Australia.
Don't worry, Bazza's place is on the way to Wongamonga so we can pick up some booze there.
Isn't Darwin further up north?
not according to Apple
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"Well Apple maps just takes you through a different national park and dumps you there. 45C is also 113F. And there is no phone reception or water."
Think of it as evolution in action.
Oh yeah, Siri should just come on every 5 minutes while navigating and say "Just to let you know, I have no idea where I'm going."
Hasn't the head of the Apple Maps team has already been taken 'outback'?
The directions to my house in Melbourne (capitol city of Victoria) actually include the step "left turn at the Giraffe"
/* FUCK - The F-word is here so that you can grep for it */
Methinks someone who takes the attitude "Its 1000 miles to Wongamonga, we've got half a tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark, we're wearing sunglasses and we've got GPS - hit it!" is an accident waiting to happen.
You clearly haven't driven in Australia ... that would be 1,600 kilometres, you wouldn't leave with only half a pack of cigarettes and where's the booze?
Maybe if you're really lucky, Wongamonga's got smokes, alcohol and the world's last Blockbuster Video store where you can rent "The Blues Brothers" after enjoying a relaxing evening of Country and Western music.
I am not a crackpot.
It's also utterly foolish to:
* rely on electricity to prolong freshness of your food
* rely on stores to buy food instead of growing your own
* rely growing your own food without knowing how to hunt and gather, and properly butcher your pray
* rely on natural gas/oil/... to heat your house without having a backup wood stove with a year supply of hand chopped wood
* rely on cel phones/ landlines/post office to deliver messages without the backup of real life pigeons
* rely on modern medicine and doctors and ditching the good old wizard healing stuff
Of course the list goes on, but you started nailing the nail on the head (hopefully you didn't forget to stockpile a lifelong supply of carpentry tools and materials and mastered the use of them).
You don't know how to use the shells?
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