GPS Mix-Up Sends Big Island Tourists On Potentially Dangerous Route 0 Apple Maps has updated its driving directions to resolve a glitch that for two weeks sent tourists on a hazardous detour.
The pitfalls of depending too heavily on GPS navigation were exposed recently on the Big Island by a parade of rental cars steered by iPhone-clutching tourists trying to navigate their way along the scenic Hamakua Coast.
Due to an inexplicable mix-up, the Apple Maps application two weeks ago started rerouting motorists off the Hawaii Belt Road that stretches seamlessly from Hilo to Honokaa, sending drivers on a five-mile detour through a residential neighborhood with a potentially perilous quarter-mile of unpaved road.
Riddled with boulders, rocks and ruts, the detour spelled trouble for anyone without a four-wheel drive vehicle.
