I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn’t much for me to do. So they decided that today I’ll do some work in the warehouse where they receive their goods.
They gave me the address but they forgot the bus so I ended taking a bus that stopped at a 20 minutes walk away. I got off the bus and tried to find this warehouse with the help of Google maps. It kept constantly telling me to go in different directions for the next 40 minutes. So I was walking around in 0 degrees Celsius weather is just a jumper. I eventually managed to find the correct area but it was in a big industrial park. I went searching around for 40 minutes and it turns out all they had to identify them is like a tiny wooden sign. So I finally got to my placement nearly 2 hours late. They were quite forgiving about it though since apparently that has happened to a few other before.
I’ve driven all over the South and not had issue. Google’s walked me down some truly weird back highways and byways, always got me there. And if I wanted to take a different route, I’d go my own way for a bit, let Google reroute.
Like OP though, once it run me in circles trying to get to the SSA office downtown. My wife started to turn according to directions, “No. Keep going, it’s not back there.”
Had to turn it off because it was driving me nuts, “Make a U turn.” No. “Fuck you blind and deaf?! Make a U turn.” Once I got past the glitch, no issue.
Probably my biggest wish for Google maps is an option for me to turn off any suggestions to make a u turn.
Maybe it’s different in other parts of the world, but around me 90% of the time it’s not even legal to make a u turn where it wants me to, most of the rest of the time it’s legal but kind of a bad, dangerous idea to try to do one there.
If I’m not at an actual dead-end I’m not making a u turn. Just reroute me around the block, have me do a lap around a parking lot, take me to the next-closest gas station, whatever you need to do, but a u-turn ain’t happening on my watch.