Amusing GPS Errors

Well its amusing now but wasnt at 2am in the morning when I was going to the Jubitz truck stop in Portland and I took the same exit 4 other trucks did and my GPS,( which was at that time called Yes ma'm) said something to the effect you are on a restricted route no trucks allowed. I knew this was the directions my company gave me but dam my blood pressure went out the window along with some F bombs lol. Come to find out it wasnt updated.

The question I ask about this though, was it not updated on your end due to user error (not downloading update and installing on device) or company error (the gps manf not having an update pushed out yet with updated road info?).

A lot of the times I found gps issues to be user error. I'm one of those types who checks for updates to stuff at least every 3-4 weeks so it doesn't happen to me often. Company error is a lot more frustrating because there's nothing you can do about it except complain to the manf. On that note though it speeds things up a lot when people report those errors... the manf are human, if someone doesn't tell me I'm doing something wrong I may never find out or I'll find out after doing it wrong 200 times, if someone tells me I can stop and do it the right way sooner and maybe only do it wrong 20 times... make sense? In other words if your gps is wrong in any way, tell the manf so they can fix it. Don't pull the "well someone already has or someone else will" attitude because maybe you're the first to experience that "wrong" or what if the next 100 people have the same attitude as you... don't be like that, be proactive :D just saying it'll help things out a lot.

Well its amusing now but wasnt at 2am in the morning when I was going to the Jubitz truck stop in Portland and I took the same exit 4 other trucks did and my GPS,( which was at that time called Yes ma'm) said something to the effect you are on a restricted route no trucks allowed. I knew this was the directions my company gave me but dam my blood pressure went out the window along with some F bombs lol. Come to find out it wasnt updated.

The question I ask about this though, was it not updated on your end due to user error (not downloading update and installing on device) or company error (the gps manf not having an update pushed out yet with updated road info?).

A lot of the times I found gps issues to be user error. I'm one of those types who checks for updates to stuff at least every 3-4 weeks so it doesn't happen to me often. Company error is a lot more frustrating because there's nothing you can do about it except complain to the manf. On that note though it speeds things up a lot when people report those errors... the manf are human, if someone doesn't tell me I'm doing something wrong I may never find out or I'll find out after doing it wrong 200 times, if someone tells me I can stop and do it the right way sooner and maybe only do it wrong 20 times... make sense? In other words if your gps is wrong in any way, tell the manf so they can fix it. Don't pull the "well someone already has or someone else will" attitude because maybe you're the first to experience that "wrong" or what if the next 100 people have the same attitude as you... don't be like that, be proactive :D just saying it'll help things out a lot.

What is the "manf?" I thought it was a typo at first but then you used it repeatedly.

What is the "manf?" I thought it was a typo at first but then you used it repeatedly.

I took it to mean, "manufacturer."

What is the "manf?" I thought it was a typo at first but then you used it repeatedly.

I took it to mean, "manufacturer."

Ooooohhh, that makes sense, I thought it was some type of derogatory lingo for "The Man" or something!

No it was Rand Mcnally had not updated this in their system.

Mine shut itself down to install updates while I was driving. It was in LA and I'm not an LA driver. I knew I had about 30 miles before my exit but I was clueless about what I was supposed to do next. It came back online about a mile before my exit and talked right to the target.

The Qualcomm GPS cracks me up every time I'm near East St Louis. It will say to stay right toward east street Louis.

Thought of another one:

I was driving through Wisconsin a few months back on my way to pick up some reclaimed barn lumber from a small Amish community, and I had to go down "County Road EE" at one point. Well I could have sworn Gertie was saying "County Wookie E" the whole time!

What is the "manf?" I thought it was a typo at first but then you used it repeatedly.

I took it to mean, "manufacturer."

that's correct... I get real lazy sometimes and will abbreviate words some times. I don't do the internet type thing (lol, smh, those kinds of things) but I will use shorter versions of words. manf is a pretty common abbreviation of manufacturer. Course if you really want to hear some greek, get me started in Red Cross or AmeriCorps lingo... then you'll really be pulling the confused dog with crooked head look. Red Cross is the worst for acronym speak, cas, cac, erv... those are 3 I have used in the last week.

In my car I use Waze for GPS and it has a tendency to every so often tell me to get off the free, turn right at the light, then left at the next one then another left then right at the access road and get back on the freeway, with no reason for it, no traffic or accidents reported just wants me to get off the freeway for a couple minutes I guess. It doesn't do it very often but I usually ignore it when it does. There was a time when that came to bite me in the rear end in NOLA (New Orleans, LA... that's a very common acronym in NOLA but not known so much outside of that area). I was in AmeriCorps and our work office was on one side of town just past the downtown area, but our housing was on the other side of town in the NE area of NOLA, well on the way home we pretty much took the 10 freeway all the way to the road our hosing was off of, then that road all the way back, on the way to work Waze would have me go 1 of 3 routes, none of them using that main road to get back to the 10. One day I thought I would be smart and ignore waze... I learned why waze wanted me to take one of the other three routes... the on ramp from that road onto the 10 was closed indefinitely due to an auto accident damaging the onramp.... sooo waze was getting me onto the freeway the next best ways... that trip to work took an additional 15 min because I had to find a new way onto the freeway and deal with more traffic and lights. let it be known, if waze tells you to do something... do it... probably a good reason. I still ignore it when it tell me to get off and back on though unless there's an accident or traffic.

here's some maps to give you a visual idea of what I was talking about...

This is where our housing was:

This is where we worked:

maybe a 15 mile drive but this is NOLA at 8:30am and 4:30pm (time we left to go to work and time we left to go home), peak traffic time for any city. plus lots of traffic lights when not on the freeway... and really bad roads...

This is a map of the off ramp we used going home (with the green line)... now if you didn't use gps you would think to go back to work using the ramp with the red line... that's what I thought when I didn't listen to waze that one time... that ramp was closed, waze knew it was and so it had me take a different way.

I figured it might help you if you could SEE what I'm talking about.

Oh and one of the huge issues that causes a lot of traffic in NOLA... the lack of options for crossing all those waterways... look at the 10 at the area where we get off... you got hwy 90 and the 10... no other way to cross that water way... hwy 90 is lots and lots of lights, plus traffic and 10 goes from 4 lanes each way to 2 when you go over the bridge.

i'm sure the other drivers here know allll about that already though. can of a major freeway the 10 is... personally unless I'm picking up or dropping in nola I would go around it (freeway on north side of lake ponchatrain)