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Oh, how we laughed when Australian police warned users against using Apple Maps. Stupid Apple! Stupid, rubbish Apple. Except now they’ve warned against using Google’s mapping tool as well, in case it leads coach loads of kids to their doom.
Local sergeant Nick Buenen says Google’s mapping system is putting lives at risk in this wilder part of Australia, thanks to sending heavy traffic down rough country lane Wild Dog Road in the small town of Colac, which is a one-way track not suitable for things with lots of wheels and/or children hanging out of the back windows.
“My issue is it’s a significant safety issue for tourists [and] locals, who are getting the wrong information from their GPSs,” Buenen said, with regional police forced to carry out six rescue missions in the last few weeks. [ABC News via Ubergizmo]
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Well, if they must insist on naming it something as inviting as Wild Dog Road!
“Which road should we use? Rainbow Drive sounds like…”
“Sounds like what? A trap is what it is! We’d be safer down Wild Dog Road, they wouldn’t expect that!”
Hahahaha how about “death ridge road”
I prefer this one
http://goo.gl/maps/ObdxH
or this … http://goo.gl/maps/u3a55
Hang on, isn’t this true of most map systems, particularly navigation systems using GPS? There’s lots of articles on truck drivers and the like who have been directed down a road not suitable for their vehicles…
This could also happen if the human navigator directs the drive to head down this track as well…
The cop’s direct quote says nothing about Google, just GPS units… “My issue is it’s a significant safety issue for tourists [and] locals, who are getting the wrong information from their GPSs,”
I thought that commercial trucking companies and such weren’t meant to use free Navigation Software because it doesn’t include specialist information like “Your truck won’t fit down this road, you idiot”..
And their truck drivers aren’t meant to use drugs, pick up ‘hitch hikers’ or drive for longer than their legal drive time.
The bigger truck companies (Fox, Stobart etc) would enforce these rules. Smaller ones, probably not so much.
Looking at supplied image, they’d probably be in more trouble if they went down Biddle’s road… I like the look of Busty road myself.
Biddle road it’s noisy, but ultimately gets you nowhere. Busty road is much more fun so long as you can handle the curves.
I hear Biddles road is full of shit.
Personally I don’t have an issue with coach loads of kids meeting their doom, don’t you know the planet’s over-populated already
I can actually think of some adults as well of there’s spare seats
Anywhere over Australia could get you killed! Afterall it’s a republic of wild and dangerous animals
Rofl, Gizmodo is pathetic. http://toxicsushi.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/googles-maps-killing-people-right-and-left-according-to-no-one/