Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues Date: 3 Feb 2025 04:03:10 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <9pdtpjdb64l7nitvc1vrdh4dqmank92caq@4ax.com> <679fc6fa$0$3620714$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <0bovpjpt3km480vgcli5abejc0e5sebtv0@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fm43viZw0CAqnZ7RQ/ZcfwDk9Pmyr9kcT6SB/24YGbfek8F0Pu Cancel-Lock: sha1:VYvlIYeS62IRMo4cCBNuZgnxPvU= sha256:K2unsR+mwjMCdfXkK4bUODmYiH1FDjOnL15TTGMsq1g= User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:684884 alt.comp.os.windows-11:16748 On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 02:50:31 +0000, Java Jive wrote: > Remember the German couple who drove off the end of a pier, and, IMS, > drowned, because their navigation app told them to?! Or the Euro > continental lorry drivers who enter "Gibraltar" into their nav apps and > end up in a tiny English village that happens to have the same name?! > Didn't any penny drop when they had to take a Channel ferry? Etc, etc. There have been several fatalities in the US from blindly following directions. Often it's nothing as blatant as driving off a bridge but the GPS shows an unmaintained road that is the shortest route. Bad choices follow. https://www.oregonlive.com/editors/2013/04/ kim_familys_fatal_oregon_journ.html I have been through that area -- in the summer with a full tank of gas. You're lulled into a false sense of security since it's a decent paved road to a launch area on the Rogue River. After you cross the river it's all twisty gravel roads with very little in the way of markings.