Apple Maps Flaw Keeps Directing Drivers To Cross An Airport Runway
In the past three weeks, two motorists drove along the taxiway and then across a runway at the Fairbanks International airport, the BBC reports. To be fair,
Fairbanks complained to Apple through the local attorney general's office, asking the company to disable the map until it was corrected to avoid any more dangerous situations. Apple apparently responded that it would fix the problem by Wednesday, and directions to the airport seemed to be disabled when we tested.
In the meantime, the airport erected barricades to block access to the final stretch of the taxiway.
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Of course, Apple is not entirely to blame for the Fairbanks fiasco. After all, drivers should always let their common sense overrule their app's robotic voice.
The assistant manager of the Fairbanks airport, Angie Spear, described the drivers' mix-ups to the BBC:
They must have been persistent. They had to enter the airport property via a motion-activated gate, and afterwards there are many signs, lights and painted markings, first warning that aircraft may share the road and then that drivers should not be there at all.
They needed to drive over a mile with all this before reaching the runway. But the drivers disregarded all that because they were following the directions given on their iPhones.
Thankfully, no one was injured.
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