May 8 2025 - Wrong Turn Exit to Canada

There's a Kafkaesque story where a woman from Guatemala and her two U.S.-born children made a wrong turn in Detroit to go to the nearest Costco. They ended up on the international bridge connecting them to Windsor. Of course they were detained as she is not a U.S. citizen without legal status.The woman's mistaken-GPS story is not uncommon.  More than 200 people have been detained at the same location since January with more than 90 percent mistakenly driving onto the bridge's toll plaza.  It doesn't say so but I wonder if they were all looking for the nearest Costco - which turns out to be on the Canadian side of the bridge.   There are some "epic failures" of GPS failures. The article points to human failure in continuing to follow the instructions despite what they are seeing.  Salon magazine covered them in 2014 HERE.  GPS sends elderly German man into sand pile. Girls drive down boat launch into lake. Japanese tourists drive rental car into Pacific Ocean.  GPS nearly sends drivers off a cliff. Buzzed driver follows directions onto railroad tracks.  Limo driver follows GPS down flight of steps. There hasn't been similar stories or coverage since.  It looks like the wrong turn Exit to Canada is this decade's variation.

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