GPS/Mapquest Fuck-ups?

[DAT NIGGA TAZZ]

The other day i typed my homies new address into my iphone gps and drove. I know how to get to the freeway exit everything else i dont know... This piece of shiet proceeds to take me past the correct turn and literally into the geyser up a fuckin mountain. I was still trusting the gps which still says 45 mins til arrival... So after about 10 miles of driving this texas chainsaw lookin ass half dirt 15mph road, after pulling over to literally kick it with some deer, after almost hitting a cow, ihear the gps chick say "you have arrived". There is not even a house remotely close to me. I stopped in the road n tried to wave down a white guy for directions but he was like pshhh drove right around me n goes hella slow n while im tryin to smash. So i turn around and bounce and the shit took me a whole hour and 20 minutes out of my way. I finally get phone servive and call and had my boy lead me there, turns out it was like 5 mins away from the freeway.

I remember getting bad mapquest directions, but i would expect my actual gps to work. And if it dosent work just say "i dont work" and not lie to me lol. I mean seriously tho, people dont usually second guess their gps, what if i had low blood sugar or somethin i woulda been fucked. That shit coulda put me in a fucked up situation.

Anybody else ever had their Gps take them to absolutely nowhere?

 

[jake921660]

apple maps has had some pretty big fuck ups since its been out

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[NiNe2FiVe]

I had a Garmin in Seattle and it kept telling my to enter a freeway off-ramp. I had a Magellan on my work truck, I knew the left turn, and my stop should be about 5 minutes away, the gps insists you turn right and says the trip will take 45 minutes. Not sure if that kinda stuff has to do with updates, or if "close enough" works for them.

 

[pbarb666]

U know your an internet veteran when you say "hold up, let me mapquest it"

 

[BUTCHER 206]

i refuse to use a gps or giving ppl exact addresses. i prefer ghetto ass directions

'you know that grimy ass mcdonald's by that 1 safeway by the goodwill on 2nd?' 'yea' 'ok its two blocks straight from there, take a right at that house with the busted ass chevy rattletrap pickup on the lawn, and ill be in the blue house next to yellow one that still has christmas lights hung up'

one of my friends has used a gps since he started driving and as a result he forever gets lost and doesnt know how to get anywhere unless he has the exact address

 

[Snakegang]

The other day i typed my homies new address into my iphone gps and drove. I know how to get to the freeway exit everything else i dont know... This piece of shiet proceeds to take me past the correct turn and literally into the geyser up a fuckin mountain. I was still trusting the gps which still says 45 mins til arrival... So after about 10 miles of driving this texas chainsaw lookin ass half dirt 15mph road, after pulling over to literally kick it with some deer, after almost hitting a cow, ihear the gps chick say "you have arrived". There is not even a house remotely close to me. I stopped in the road n tried to wave down a white guy for directions but he was like pshhh drove right around me n goes hella slow n while im tryin to smash. So i turn around and bounce and the shit took me a whole hour and 20 minutes out of my way. I finally get phone servive and call and had my boy lead me there, turns out it was like 5 mins away from the freeway.

I remember getting bad mapquest directions, but i would expect my actual gps to work. And if it dosent work just say "i dont work" and not lie to me lol. I mean seriously tho, people dont usually second guess their gps, what if i had low blood sugar or somethin i woulda been fucked. That shit coulda put me in a fucked up situation.

Anybody else ever had their Gps take them to absolutely nowhere?

When I first got an Iphone like 4 years ago I got super fucking lost using the apple maps. I was trying to get to this bar in a town I didn't know well and it kept telling me take these lefts. After like 45 minutes I was back in the exact fucking place I started. I thought maybe it was because it was in backwoods eastern oregon and maybe the map just wasn't correct. But then I had similar issues when I was in Vegas too. Tried using the walking directions on the strip and shit was way off. Fuck apple maps. I use them as more of a guide and don't 100% trust them on anything.

 

[DFresh77]

I stopped reading when you said "iPhone" ..that's your problem..

 

[Mike Manson]

I hate GPS. My wife always wants to buy that shit for my car, cause she gets lost anywhere she goes, but I don't want it. If I go somewhere new I look on how to get there on google maps and then find my way.

 

[BigDS.S.F.]

use the google maps app. hasn't led me to leatherface yet.

 

[slapahoe]

i refuse to use a gps or giving ppl exact addresses. i prefer ghetto ass directions

'you know that grimy ass mcdonald's by that 1 safeway by the goodwill on 2nd?' 'yea' 'ok its two blocks straight from there, take a right at that house with the busted ass chevy rattletrap pickup on the lawn, and ill be in the blue house next to yellow one that still has christmas lights hung up'

one of my friends has used a gps since he started driving and as a result he forever gets lost and doesnt know how to get anywhere unless he has the exact address

Yeah I know people like this shit gets on my nerves. Literally would not know how to go anywhere if they lost or forgot their phone.

Moved to a new place this summer for a few months and had a friend come thru a good number of times like 10+ and it was literally just a exit off a expressway and you follow the road straight to my house. I was cool with giving the address the first 2-3 times but fuck after that I was like do you not fucking remember from last time? Same with going to other places too, is always hella lost without gps.

Nigga would ask for the zip code an shit too. Smh

I can't stand being lost or just blindly following GPS. Makes me feel hella uncomfortable

 

[DAT NIGGA TAZZ]

This is where that shit took me to... Idk if u can see that well but thats earl and todd, the deer i was kickin it with

 

[Hood Rat Matt]

I printed out some mapquest directions when I was driving from the Bay Area to the port of long beach. The shit took me thru the hills of bel air and in order to get where I was going I would've had to drive off a huge cliff

 

[AdolfOliverBush]

My GPS seems to fuck up any time I go into Florida. I'm thinking maybe it's because my GPS doesn't consider Florida a real state and therefore refused to incorporate any streets maps of Florida into it's memory.

I remember last summer going down to Tampa and we were trying to go to the aquarium. I got the address, put it in, and it literally had me make four right turns in one big circle and then wanted me to do it again. I said "Fuck that thing", turned it off, and saw a homeless guy walking on the sidewalk. I pulled my car over and figured he would know how to get to the aquarium. He gave me exact, detailed instructions, I gave him $5, and I got to the aquarium. Fuck a GPS, just give me a homeless person.

 

[DAT NIGGA TAZZ]

I forgot to mention that it was the first time ive used the gps on my phone i just got 2 weeks ago... I dont even use gps and the one time i do it fucks up bad lol.

I aint the fuckin brawny man but i swear i can usually find shit better by instinct, and if i do get lost on my own then im never really that far off... Now that i think about, i would say that 90% of the times where i was helllla lost it was because of me getting directions from the internet...

I knew internet maps was sometimes wrong, and theyre always changing exits cuz of roadwork n shit... But i had no idea it was that bad, for me they only been completely right like half of the time lol