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Sad Nav: How a cheap GPS spoofer gizmo can tell drivers to get lost

Neil Barnes Silver badge
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Re: Luckily

The same way I've done it for years: follow the diversion signs for the closures and listen to local radio for traffic updates.

I notice (casual anecdotal observation) that with GPS system users, there tends to be a disconnect between location and route for the driver; they're quite happy to follow the instructions without knowing where they actually are until 'you have reached your destination'. That situational unawareness seems to make it, um, interesting for many drivers when the road the GPS wants them to use is unavailable for whatever reason; the concept of looking at the road signs seems to have passed them by, possibly because they no longer have a spatial sense of where places are in relation to each other.

The one with the A-Z and the Bartholomew in the pocket, please: it might rain. -->

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