The lady directing my GPS does not always know what she is talking about. We were visiting Halifax and had our hotel in sight; we only needed to continue straight for two blocks. For fun, we decided to listen to our GPS and see how it would direct us. We wound around through the neighborhood, turning right and left, and left and right, and ended up behind the hotel.
The most tragic example of travelers depending solely on their GPS is when a couple took a suggested road through ranching country in Nevada, in the winter, and ended up on an unused dirt path where they got stuck and froze to deat...