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had the same with a NavMan, offered shortest route up a steep hill on a well corrigated loose metal road - the main road (2 lanes each way_ was only 2 km longer and being smooth much faster.
it's just common sense: for instance ask any software what is the fastest way down a 20 floor building, answer is out the window isn't it - fastest path, straightest line, so why make a fuss that it's not what's expected.
100% operator error - you get what you ask for, blaming google for getting such is just whining.
(another good reference: Deep Thought.)
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The [^] links right back to the Lounge (for me, it's an empty href)... I agree, common sense is a rare commodity here 
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Only the [^] part, the 'clickety' part takes you right to the muddy fields of Denver...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'm surprised I had to read through so many comments until finally someone both noticed and mentioned that little oversight..
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Maybe Google was just being fair to the dirt road? Showing only paved roads and highways to a destination shows bias.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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In the old days, people blindly replied on what their priest was saying witout using their own common sense. Personally, I think that could have far more grave consequences that getting your car stuck in the mud after heavy rain.
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I think you'll find that common sense isn't very common among humans and it's the use of the faulty common sense that gets the world into so much trouble.!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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When asking the drivers what it was like making all those turns they said "It as like a maize..."
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Years ago we drove from Sydney to Melbourne and along the way took a detour in a town for fuel refill. Then Google took us on some internal road for an hour just to reach at the end of the road there was a very big ditch and on the other side was highway. We ware wise to turn back and drove back the whole way again. Didn't try to jump the car like in movies ! 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Outsourcing one's own brain has a long tradition. What technology is now, was (and in many parts of the world still is) religion: A set of rules, some of them having a deeper sense (no one cares about because you don't question religion), some of them entirely nonsensical (which you still follow) and oddly enough, the most popular religions are the ones dictating every single aspect of life.
When I think of an acquaintance of mine who is, let's say, odd, some people really need such a book to protect them from essentially themselves.
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The title of your post is hilariously ironic.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Re: When people blindly rely on technology without using their own common sense
Why hasn't anyone corrected it? Clearly OP meant to write "Rely". Maybe the auto-correct feature changed it to "Reply".
Also here is a devastating example of following paper-based maps, making bad decisions on whether to turn back or continue on, not knowing the lay of the land, and not understanding the size / scope and operation of a European military base vs. North American military base.
Anyone that relies on maps (paper-based, or electronic) should be encouraged to read this story The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans[^]
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I am based in the UK and normally work at home.
Last November I had an urgent request to go in to the office to set up an industrial PC that was to be shipped out to a customer in the Netherlands. I went in for two or three days to complete the setup. I emailed those concerned to let them know it was ready and left it on the table in the office, labelled with the appropriate contract number.
It stayed there until last week. At that point I was asked to travel to the customer site this week to do the installation and other updates to the machine of which the PC is a part. I reminded them that the PC hadn't yet been shipped and told them (again) where it was. They promised to ship it so that it would arrive before me.
I got here to the Netherlands to find that some fool back in the UK had shipped the wrong PC - a brand new one with no setup at all. Since I had a very tight deadline I began setting up the new one and at the same time demanded they ship the HDD from the correct PC overnight. The HDD arrived a day and a half later, by which time I had already completed and updated the new setup, so I decided not to use the shipped HDD. The newly set up PC was working perfectly.
I came in this morning to do some final checks before heading to the airport to find the new PC reporting a SMART failure on its HDD and refusing to run! What a good job I had a spare HDD (although, of course, I wouldn't have needed a spare if they had shipped the correct PC in the first place).
So now I've spent a happy time recovering updated files from the failed HDD to get back to where we were last night. 
Phil
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don't they have SSD's normally?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Yes, some do, but not this particular model (a retrofit to an older machine).
Phil
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Older Machine, Industrial PC, < Shiver > CMP <'/' Shiver >
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If it was easy they wouldn't have to pay me to do it. 
Phil
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It seems like St. Murphy was at work. Nearly everything that could have possibly gone wrong did.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Are we the people that you moaned to or did you give someone local a bit of verbal? 
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Let's just say that you weren't the first (or the only) people who got to hear about it.
Phil
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 well done!
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Phil, I feel your pain. We go through that crap all the time, since we use industrial PC's to control our systems. One of my roles as the DSJB(*) is Creator-Of-Windows-10-Images, where I get to go through all the cumbersome claptrap required to create an image ready for installation on new hardware. It typically takes anywhere from a couple days to a week, depending upon how much work it takes to locate motherboard drivers, etc.
(*) Departmental Shït-Job Boy
Software Zen: delete this;
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That you're not allowed flying near airports is obvious.
But I noticed that in Germany you by law need to have an insurance that is, also by law, not possible to get for nonresidents.
What's the rules in your country?
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Just one simple international rule... don't get caught!
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