Why does nobody talk about the GPS reroute trap on long drives

I was driving through Dallas last week, 20 miles from my exit, when my phone's GPS suddenly rerouted me onto a side road that looked fine on the map. Turns out that road was a dirt path with a low-hanging branch that scraped my roof and a dead end that cost me 45 minutes of backtracking. Anyone else had a navigation app send you into a weird spot that wasted your time?

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tara_palmer16d ago

My ex got rerouted into a cow pasture in Oklahoma once lmao.

lee.diana16d ago

Honestly @tara_palmer, I used to think getting rerouted by GPS was no big deal. Like, oh no you have to drive an extra mile, big whoop. But reading this changed my mind completely. A cow pasture in Oklahoma sounds like a whole different level of screwed up. Imagine following your GPS and ending up with cows staring at you through the windshield. That's not a wrong turn, that's a life lesson. Now I'm way more careful about checking my route before I leave.