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by testfrequency 4 days ago
I sometimes think about the time I was on a road trip with a friend, and for what was generally a 3 hour trip to the mountain, was 5 hours for my friend driving.

Midway through the trip I was suspicious of the duration, traffic was fine. He was adamant he knew where he was going.

I pulled up google maps, and sure enough. 3 hours.

Turns out, his mapping app wasn’t aware of an offramp, so instead it wanted us to drive an extra hour, then do a u-turn and drive back to take an offramp.

He was blindly using Apple Maps

2 comments

In defence of Apple Maps, I find it a lot better in terms of routing and traffic than Google now (especially in the UK).
I had a similar experience with Apple Maps. I swore it off forever that day.