Posted by oldtanker on August 30, 2019 at 08:08:46 from (66.228.255.203):
In Reply to: GPS? posted by Ozlander on August 29, 2019 at 09:30:46:
For a number of years we have been amused by stories of folks who turned into open desert, farm fields and lakes and ponds because their GPS said "turn left or right NOW". As long as no one got hurt we all laughed and asked how people could do things like that.
Heck who here remembers Jessica Lynch? Female soldier captured in Iraq after the convoy she was in drove into a firefight? Ever wonder what happened? The convoy commander (platoon SGT) was relying on GPS in a sand storm. They were lost. Several soldiers died because of that and that was not the first time that happened. The 1st I'm aware of occurred in the 90's right after the Army bought GPS. A unit doing a night attack with Bradly Fighting Vehicles drove 3 BFVs into a wadi causing them to roll over. The platoon leader and a Bradly commander died. The platoon SGT had wanted to stop, dismount people to scout ahead to find the wadi. The LT insisted on going another 300-400 meters before send out scouts. The GPS had been off by a good 1/2 mile.
When the phone app maps came out I had 3 incidents involving my kids and finding something. I had a Garmin on the dash. They were telling me how old fashioned I was. So instead of entering the data on my GPS we followed their phone apps. All 3 times had to stop, enter the address in my GPS because the phone app thing was new and not very good. None of them are perfect. But the phone apps have improved.
Anyways people, mostly younger, are more reliant on technology. Most of us older guys who traveled around the country for years know how to read a map. Young people today know how to use an app. And as time goes on this stuff will get better and better.
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