But definitely we will see the "German family dies in death valley due to navigator failure" headline.
But definitely we will see the "German family dies in death valley due to navigator failure" headline.
Not much different than today, then: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...
It isn't that I can't easily solve these problems if I'm looking at the map, but since it is incapable of having me make a left turn it will often plot an "optimal" route that is 15 minutes longer than it should be, because the real optimal route looks like it takes longer due to the routing error. Not to mention that it often confuses delivery drivers. Note, that the incorrect route typically comes from the Android version of Google maps, but if I go on the web interface the route will be ok.
Sell all your property, move to India and get a job on their equivalent version of Mechanical Turk.
Or you can install OsmAnd and use the OSM dataset, which is not as comprehensive, but it doesn't many lies. At most, outdated data.
A 406MHz beacon is going to be relevant to a lot of scenarios that people get into in large sparsely populated countries like the US or Australia, because it means somebody knows where you are and that you need help, and then all they've got to do is come help you.