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Apple's Maps App Directs Alaska Drivers onto Airport Taxiway
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I like how most people seem to be blaming Apple Maps, when in reality it is the driver who is not paying any attention to the road and instead focusing too much on their phone. If someone was sitting in your passenger seat and kept saying 'drive onto the airport runway', you would tell them to 'shut their mouth'. But when a machine tells them to do it, its OK. 'That machine must know what its talking about, I better trust it implicitly.'
There should be a tax levied against people making stupid mistakes. It should help them reinforce a change in their behavior:
"Man last month I was fined $1500 for being stupid, maybe I should make a change in my life."
There should be a tax levied against people making stupid mistakes. It should help them reinforce a change in their behavior:
"Man last month I was fined $1500 for being stupid, maybe I should make a change in my life."
They don't need to fly in. She uses some string and tin cans to talk to the Russians. After all, she can see Russia from her house!
Not to absolve Maps, but I've driven to/around dozens and dozens of airports and I've never seen an opportunity for a car to go where the airplanes go. Forget about safety; how about security? This boggles the mind, especially in a post-9/11 world.
ATTENTION TERRORISTS: Regardless of Apple fixing Maps, you have unfettered access to the planes at Fairbanks International Airport.
ATTENTION MELISSA OSBORN: Put up a friggin' gate!
ATTENTION TERRORISTS: Regardless of Apple fixing Maps, you have unfettered access to the planes at Fairbanks International Airport.
ATTENTION MELISSA OSBORN: Put up a friggin' gate!
Ha! Seriously how flipping stupid are people. I'm sorry I use Apple's & Google's maps to get me to the area of my destination. I'm pretty sure the dumb@$$ didn't stop to think oh wait I'm near the airport maybe I should follow the signs instead and of taking their eyes off their phone for 2 minutes.
It doesn't matter: it's Apple's product, so Apple are 100% to blame.
The whole point of Apple is that you don't need to care about who their backend partners are or whatever. Apple has always taken full responsibility for what they release, and this should be no different just because it's sub-standard.
Maps don't improve. I've submitted the same correction dozens of times and it's still not been integrated. Sounds like I'm not the only one.
I've read through the responses, and it seems only a few people like you are getting what the real problem is.
Fairbanks is an international airport. The runways and ramp area are supposed to be secured, per FAA rules, and international agreement.
Yes, the Apple Map database may have an error in it. But, the real problem is that someone was able to drive onto the airport, unchallenged.
Fair enough, but if Google had just given it away for free like Apple wanted it would probably hurt them more on the Android side of things without giving them something back for this.
But from the additional services they wouldn't have been allowed to add if they played Apple's ball. Plus, their Android platform is going stronger.
It is now more of a hassle for iOS users to get Google's services than it would've been if Google and Apple came to an agreement, that's all I meant by that.
Considering how well Android is doing right now I doubt that Google is all that concerned about what may have been on iOS. Remember, iOS and Android are directly competing platforms and anything Google does to improve iOS is inevitably going to have negative effects on Android so it's no surprise that they want something in return for doing it.
ios in cockpit
Didn't a major airline just approve "the" use of iPads in "the" cockpit for pilots? Hmmm just wondering if someone didn't mix up the code somewhere....meanwhile a 737 is parked in Fairbanks Walmart parking lot....this isn't the right gate?....just saying....</kidding>
No matter what GPS/mapping app you use, responsibility falls to the driver. Be alert, drive safe.
Didn't a major airline just approve "the" use of iPads in "the" cockpit for pilots? Hmmm just wondering if someone didn't mix up the code somewhere....meanwhile a 737 is parked in Fairbanks Walmart parking lot....this isn't the right gate?....just saying....</kidding>
No matter what GPS/mapping app you use, responsibility falls to the driver. Be alert, drive safe.
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Once again its good click bait. Seems with every website these days it's all about how many people you can get to click on something.
This whole thing makes me LOL. People are just stupid. Like the guy that turned and drove his vehicle down a boat ramp into a lake and blamed the GPS or the woman that drove into a farmer's pond because the GPS said to go there.
this happened in alaska? One little mistake and everyone flips... If you ask me, the new map system is working great with no preoblems yet.
Apple deserve a lawsuit here. They've had plenty of time to fix it and have chosen not to do so.
The maps simply have not improved enough in the last year and are still massively wrong for many parts of the world. Ours even show a McDonalds restaurant that closed nearly 20 years ago, along with many other businesses that don't exist.
The map quality is overall, crap.
Clearly they aren't capable of getting it right. Drop the pathetic attempt and go crawling back to Google. They were far more superior.
The maps simply have not improved enough in the last year and are still massively wrong for many parts of the world. Ours even show a McDonalds restaurant that closed nearly 20 years ago, along with many other businesses that don't exist.
The map quality is overall, crap.
Clearly they aren't capable of getting it right. Drop the pathetic attempt and go crawling back to Google. They were far more superior.
So let me get this straight... Apple Maps navigates drivers to the taxiway on the airport, which is terribly wrong. But the airport leaves its gates open to the taxiway & runway, but that is completely fine?
Seriously, as an honest person & frequent traveler I sit through security lines for very long periods of time to ensure that the passengers of the plane and our country remains safe. People who have bad intentions (thinking 9/11 like) can simply drive on to the taxiway and do what they will. Apple Maps is clearly the bigger problem though.
Seriously, as an honest person & frequent traveler I sit through security lines for very long periods of time to ensure that the passengers of the plane and our country remains safe. People who have bad intentions (thinking 9/11 like) can simply drive on to the taxiway and do what they will. Apple Maps is clearly the bigger problem though.
Used the step by step on the iphone maps a few times in the car as my wife had the sat nav worked perfectly well for me
What idiot would drive onto or get near a runway anyway sounds like IOS7 waterproofing to me lol
What idiot would drive onto or get near a runway anyway sounds like IOS7 waterproofing to me lol
Apple still pay that license fee, and always will if they don't want pissed off iOS 5 and lower customers.
Apple also still pays the fee for Find My iPhone on iCloud.com.
Either way though, the fee is negligible to both Apple and Google. Neither would give a damn if that fee vanished as its a completely insignificant amount.
