I can’t remember how they turned out, but I remember cases in the late 90s when GPS in rental cars first became available. A local example involved a renter driving into a river at night because the GPS showed a ferry crossing as a bridge.
@moortaktheundea & @GospelX the lack of a bridge is far less visible than a pedestrian. Did you look at the pictures of this broken bridge? You can’t see the discontinuity -it’s nearly invisible until you’re on top of it, possibly too late to stop.
I remember as a kid watching old westerns where people in stagecoaches or wagons would nearly drive right off a cliff in western canyonlands. How could they not see it?
Now that I live in the Western US, I know how. Canyons appear out of nowhere when you’re driving here. The nature of erosion means the sides of canyons are at the same height and the rimrock on one side just blends right into the rimrock on the other.
This bridge reminds me of that visual effect.
