Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for December 18, 2017

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    Dtroutma  about 7 years ago

    PEOPLE will do it if the GPS says to!

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    Nuliajuk  about 7 years ago

    I rented a GPS unit to go with the car in France and it kept trying to kill me be suggesting I drive down one-way streets in the wrong direction. Shut it off and bought a map.

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    Gent  about 7 years ago

    Ha ha. Good one. (Stupid GPS goofed up recently and sent us on wrong way again. Or was that a wrongly marked place on map? Oh, whatever)

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    DanFlak  about 7 years ago

    I don’t trust my GPS. It tells me I have 0.8 miles to go when my bumper is on the intersection where I have to turn. It also thinks that the fastest route between two points is through downtown. I once asked it to take me from New York to Roanoke Virginia and it selected local streets through every town in New Jersey and downtown Philadelphia.

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    cubswin2016  about 7 years ago

    I prefer a map.

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    thebashfulone  about 7 years ago

    Now that we have vented our collective spleen about GPS—everybody’s gotta admit, this is a very funny comic!

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    NORTHIDAHO  about 7 years ago

    Every year there is another story (or several) about folks whose GPS sent them on a ‘shortcut’ not maintained county road through the Sierras in December – or a similarly unimproved jeep trail through the Escalante Wilderness in July (pulling a camper).

    Ain’t no shortage of dumb out there – reinforced by bad technology.

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    Kaputnik  about 7 years ago

    I haven’t had a GPS take me off a cliff, but I’ve had them take me pretty far away from where I was going, as well as down dirt roads that weren’t even the shortest route.

    A self driving car may be a blessing when I can no longer drive safely myself, but I hope they’re working on a way to give it common sense.

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    Charlie Tuba  about 7 years ago

    I like to play “Dueling GPSs.” I use my Garmin and Google Maps on my cel phone. When going to my mother’s house, I tell them both, “Don’t tell me to turn there! I grew up in this neighborhood!”

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    Reaven  about 7 years ago

    Unlike what seems like everyone else in the world, I really haven’t had any issues with GPS. If you think an instruction is bad, just do something different and make it calculate a different route based on what you did. My phone’s GPS also has a reasonably accurate map of the area, and it’s not like a physical map is going to know what roads are closed or changed either.

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