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I’d judge him but I once was forced to rent a car in France because of a strike and drove through what was definitely a total pedestrian/restaurant area because it was on a map as a road. It can happen if you’re an idiot with no sense of direction.
Also, Google Maps once tried to give me a shortcut through the Manhattan Project site in New Mexico. The security guard asked for ID and I gave him my driver’s license and he said, “Here’s what you’re gonna do. Go to that turnaround right there and never come back.”
I will absolutely judge him anyway because literally everyone with a license should be able to scrounge up enough of a clue to fucking stop instead of driving down a damn staircase!
I did this in Carcassonne. The town square is one-way…not the way I was going. People were honking and yelling. I just pretended I was Clark Griswold and smiled and waved. “Everyone is so friendly around here!”
Italy is even worse than France for this kind of thing. More than a few times I’ve found myself on streets that DEFINITELY were not car streets, but Google maps sent me there. Florence was the worst for this. I’ve also found myself on streets in Italy that only very very narrow cars could fit down because of Google maps. I had to reverse down a long alley because it kept narrowing and narrowing until even with the mirrors pulled back it was narrower than my rental car (with a small car in front of me pissed off because I was blocking her).
Germany also has a lot of pedestrian/restaurant squares that do allow cars but only early in the morning or late at night, but there are no signs saying WHEN those times are. And I needed to drive through those squares to get to my hotels, so that was interesting a couple times.
Spain can get pretty tight too.
if those steps are so spanish the why are they in rome?
On holiday
Dude watched too much action movies.
Or used Apple maps to navigate.
Apple Maps has had its share of mishaps too. There was one instance where someone was hosting a party at a farmhouse, and everyone who used Apple Maps to navigate to the address ended up on an airport runway.
IIRC, this was shortly after their big breakup with Google Maps, so Apple fell back to using outdated maps.
That’s the joke. Iirc, there were lots of news of seemingly insane driving by people blindly following the navigation in Apple devices some years ago. (Might be quite a few years now)
When I was in Australia, this happened…