Here's another nice article that I am going to truly enjoy writing (well, at least for today), basically because it did confirm the fact that just about any GPS navigator can lead people in the wrong direction. Actually, just comparing with what I have heard from friends, that got led to the middle of mountains and such, this here happening is much worse.

This is the story of middle-aged couple John and Starry Rhoads that got misguided by their SUV's navigational system, and ended stuck in high snow. This is definitely a win for the GPS in one of these people's mobile phone, since that worked a lot more accurately than the SUV's one that led them on a remote forest road, when traveling through the high desert of Eastern Oregon.

Doing so, the couple got stuck for no less than three days in the snow, and that would have probably got them killed, considering the low temperatures in that desert. Happily for them, and their relatives nevertheless, the middle-aged couple had some serious winter clothing packed for the road, and that is what saved their lives.

After those three days, the divinity (do call it weather) got some clear sky for the two, so they managed to send out their coordinates using their GPS-enabled mobile phone. Funny, isn't it? GPS got them stuck and out of the trouble, but of course, different ones.

What I understand from this? Well, except for the times when you are only driving in the city boundaries, that one should always try the most efficient route rather than the shortest. Why? Just because I, for one, would rather get to my destination sooner or later, than not at all, and because the shortest way is not always the safest too.


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