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“The main thing is: do not blindly rely on AI as as a ~~route planning~~ tool. It can never substitute for good education, good training, a good experience, good decision making in the field.”
In July, three people were rescued after they planned a route on the Howe Sound Crest Trail using Google Maps, which gave them wildly inaccurate time estimates, suggesting a route that often takes as long as 14 hours could be done in just over five
Its like that in vietnam too, 6 hours is 8 or 9 in good conditions and riding double the speed limit.
Last month, google maps tried to send me down a road that is under water for 3 months of the year, after several miles of construction.
I switched to waze after google kept routing me off the highway and through dirt trails between farms or dense, winding neighborhood allys to avoid interchanges. At one point google hated a highway so much I had to put traffic stop every 20 miles or do or it would tell me to turn around and make a 1 hour detour instead of following a straight, empty highway.
God forbid you turn off navigation and just look at the map
Good luck finding a recently updated map LOL
Also, I often drive alone, and when I have a passenger she's literally blind and isn't helpful for map reading.
I've been a Waze user for 15 years and it's fucking great.
I'm in no way suggesting you need to use one, but... Are you under the impression that paper maps became difficult to source?
probably worth knowing that Waze is a bit sus, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/waze-israel-terms-of-service/
It has also been owned by Google for years, so I don't know if its navigation really differs that much.
I recently read about a similar story with Deepseek. Don't understand why someone blindly trusts a LLM.
It also happened with Gemini https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mount-shasta-rescue-ai-22414497.php
It's becoming the new "our latest model also "accidentally" hacked someone"
One major point in this respect is that these things are mainly reported in the West about Western LLMs, while in China similar stories related to Chinese LLMs are censored to avoid negative reporting on the country.
I asked Claude how to pee. It all made sense but unfortunately I now need to cleanup.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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