Pinpoint¶
Milner, G. (2016). Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds. W. W. Norton.
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Mechanisms¶
- Turn-by-Turn Route Guidance
- … hold no independent orientation, a traveler will follow a bad instruction straight into trouble — the widely reported phenomenon of "death by GPS," where drivers obey turn-by-turn guidance onto closed roads, into water, or off the map because they trusted the next instruction over the evidence of their own eyes.
This sourceDocuments “death by GPS” incidents in which travelers follow navigation guidance onto hazardous or nonexistent routes and come to serious harm.
- … hold no independent orientation, a traveler will follow a bad instruction straight into trouble — the widely reported phenomenon of "death by GPS," where drivers obey turn-by-turn guidance onto closed roads, into water, or off the map because they trusted the next instruction over the evidence of their own eyes.
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