Originally Posted by
DrJerry
FWIW. There was a guy a year or two who had a GPS in his car. He got into Oregon mountains in the winter and GPS led him astray. It was fatal. They don't show snowbanks and washed out roads. Something to consider.
This is 100% speculation of the worst sort, but in OR there are some real quirks to the back roads. Often, Google-based maps will show a road as existing when it doesn't or show a road as not going through that does. If the GPS unit is using maps that are based on Google-maps, then that could have been one factor among many in that tragedy.
I am one of those curmudgeons who hasn't gotten a GPS yet. Well, except for one of the cheapie Spot devices so my wife and/or son can see where I am; it doesn't tell me. I feel like I should already know.