Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway

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Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @05:37AM from the wrong-turn dept.

solareagle writes "The BBC reports that an Alaskan airport says it has had to place barricades across one of its taxiways after an Apple Maps flaw resulted in iPhone users driving across a runway. The airport said it had complained to the phone-maker through the local attorney general's office. 'We asked them to disable the map for Fairbanks until they could correct it, thinking it would be better to have nothing show up than to take the chance that one more person would do this,' Melissa Osborn, chief of operations at the airport, told the Alaska Dispatch newspaper. The airport said it had been told the problem would be fixed by Wednesday. However the BBC still experienced the issue when it tested the app, asking for directions to the site from a property to the east of the airport. By contrast the Google Maps app provided a different, longer route which takes drivers to the property's car park."

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Steve jobs says: by engun · 2013-09-25 05:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, you did ask for the fastest route.
1. Re:Steve jobs says: by gandhi_2 · 2013-09-25 05:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  They were driving it wrong.
  
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Re:Credulousness by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-25 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Apple doesn't allow batteries of lawyers to be changed.
Alaska's fault by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-25 05:46 · Score: 2, Funny

They are using their roads incorrectly. Next time they should consult Apple before undertaking such projects so that the routes can be preapproved.
It's a feature, not a bug by DieByWire · 2013-09-25 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Cool. Apple is now providing taxiing directions for pilots!

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Re:The real question is by orgelspieler · 2013-09-25 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

where was the TSA?
They were too busy groping grandma, duh! Because if they don't, teh terrorists might win!!!
Re:Credulousness by dwye · 2013-09-25 08:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Because Alaskans aren't all that crazy about security. Come on, do you really expect a moose to hijack an airplane?
Only if he has a flying squirrel as an accomplice. And William Conrad doing voice-over from the dead.
Re: Google maps error too by neonKow · 2013-09-25 08:17 · Score: 3, Funny

You too must be new here. Let me regale you with tales of a company called Microsoft...
Re: calendar check. by AmiMoJo · 2013-09-25 08:24 · Score: 4, Funny

So what you are saying is that they built it wrong.

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