LANGLADE, Wis. (AP) — A motorist relying on a GPS navigation unit found out the hard way that technology is not always the answer. Sheriff's officials said a woman was driving when the best routing from the GPS sent her onto a road that forked into a snowmobile trail. Several miles down the frozen path she stopped and couldn't turn around in about a foot and a half of snow surrounding the car.
She called 911 at 10:44 a.m.
Deputy Keith Svoboda said it took a while to find her and much longer to get heavy equipment in to free the vehicle. Deputies dropped her at a motel for the night.
Svoboda said the lesson is, "People shouldn't believe everything those things tell you."


I am the type of person where I'm always telling dh just listen to the garmin lol but eeeek I can't imagine!

Yeah Garmins (all GPS) can be very unreliable and send you stupid places.. lol... that's scary. I'm glad she was found and got out okay!

You would think she would've been able to tell that it wasn't sending her on the best route. There's no accounting for common sense.

Gee I can get lost all on my own. I don't need help from technology, LOL

Lol I love my garmin and have had very few problems with it but i also use common sense, I wouldn't dare go driving down a road with feet of snow even if my beloved garmin told me to lol, when I was going to meet dh this weekend it tried to send me on a road that had been dead ended and replaced with an interstate lol but i figured it out, generally it gets me where I need to go without any issues.

I felt the same way too Meg.

I say what a dummy! There are feet of snow onthe groud! Hello! In Texas we close everything down for 1/2 and inch hahaha!

Haha! I know my garmin has sent me on several wild goose chases. Dh is better than me and knows when he is going the wrong way. He will turn the way that feels right and the gps will catch on.

angela it sounds like Jesse and I....

he's got a great sense of direction.. me.. not so much!

lol

But a little common sense does go a long way!

Jesse and I have gotten to where we read the directions on the garmin before leaving to make sure it's taking us the right way. That way we're not making stupid turns just because it tells us to!

Oh no! I can almost see myself doing that! But I think I would have stopped before going down a snowmobile trail!

see i don't know what a snowmobile trail even looks like lol. But seeing this makes me think some day i am going to have to eat my words when i am constantly yelling at him NO JEFF THAT IS NOT WHAT THE GPS SAID *&%$%&**#%$*!#$!!!!!!!!