Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway 311
solareagle writes "The BBC reports that an Alaskan airport says it has had to place barricades across one of its taxiways after an Apple Maps flaw resulted in iPhone users driving across a runway. The airport said it had complained to the phone-maker through the local attorney general's office. 'We asked them to disable the map for Fairbanks until they could correct it, thinking it would be better to have nothing show up than to take the chance that one more person would do this,' Melissa Osborn, chief of operations at the airport, told the Alaska Dispatch newspaper. The airport said it had been told the problem would be fixed by Wednesday. However the BBC still experienced the issue when it tested the app, asking for directions to the site from a property to the east of the airport. By contrast the Google Maps app provided a different, longer route which takes drivers to the property's car park."
Steve jobs says: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Steve jobs says: (Score:5, Funny)
They were driving it wrong.
Re:Credulousness (Score:5, Funny)
Apple doesn't allow batteries of lawyers to be changed.
Alaska's fault (Score:2, Funny)
They are using their roads incorrectly. Next time they should consult Apple before undertaking such projects so that the routes can be preapproved.
It's a feature, not a bug (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The real question is (Score:5, Funny)
where was the TSA?
They were too busy groping grandma, duh! Because if they don't, teh terrorists might win!!!
Re:Credulousness (Score:4, Funny)
Because Alaskans aren't all that crazy about security. Come on, do you really expect a moose to hijack an airplane?
Only if he has a flying squirrel as an accomplice. And William Conrad doing voice-over from the dead.
Re: Google maps error too (Score:4, Funny)
You too must be new here. Let me regale you with tales of a company called Microsoft...
Re: calendar check. (Score:5, Funny)
So what you are saying is that they built it wrong.