Kids & Family
Google Maps Mistake Leaves Dozens Of Families Stranded In The Desert
The alternate route was supposed to shave off 50 minutes from their already long 5.5-hour drive.
November 30, 2023
When you put an address into Google Maps, you trust that it will give you the fastest route. However, for dozens of families trying to make it home from Las Vegas, it redirected them to the middle of nowhere.
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It happened a little over a week ago, when Shelby Easler and a number of other rivers were led down a dreadful dirt path during a dust storm in the Mojave Desert.
"Literally, it was leading us nowhere," said Easler. "We went nowhere and then we just ended up getting lost. This is a screengrab I took a phone of Apple Maps and they're like: 'Where are you?"
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