Transcript for Hawaii GPS fail?
ANDREA FUJII: This morning, GPS is being blamed for leading tourists astray in Hawaii.
BYSTANDER: Hurry, it's going under! Hurry up and get out!
ANDREA FUJII: For the second time in just over a month, a driver mistakenly drove down a boat ramp at Honokohau Harbor and landed in the water. Her SUV quickly submerging. A local fisherman was one of those who helped get her to safety.
- We actually threw her a flotation device. She used it to basically swim over to our boat and then we pulled her out.
- Thank you
- Watch where you're stepping, OK?
ANDREA FUJII: It was a similar story in late April--
- I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen.
ANDREA FUJII: --when another tourist drove down the same boat ramp. She and her passenger were also helped by locals. Both drivers say they were following GPS to meet a tour group and didn't know they were driving into the harbor.
- They thought it was a puddle. It was raining. Both nights it was raining. But on the other side, you have a sailboat tied to one side on the first time. And you have a boat coming on the other side on the next time. So it's hard to say why they're taking it down a boat ramp.
ANDREA FUJII: But GPS mistakes have happened before. In 2019, dozens of drivers got stuck in the mud in Colorado, after a GPS detour sent them onto an isolated, narrow path.
- It was a mess.
- Why did Google send us out there to begin with? It just didn't make any sense.
ANDREA FUJII: And that same year in Massachusetts, a woman was stuck on a busy section of train tracks after she said GPS told her to make a wrong turn. In a panic, she called 911.
DRIVER: I'm across the train tracks. And I can't have the train come across the train tracks right now.
- Fortunately, in all these incidents, no one was injured. Back in Hawaii, it's not clear how a navigation app took the drivers down the boat ramp, as all the main apps, like Waze, Google, and Apple, show water where the boat ramp is, not a roadway.
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