COLORADO
ere’s an unfortunate example of AI giving someone a real bum steer. A tractor-trailer’s navigational guidance system “trucked up” in a major way, inconveniencing slews of sightseers and campers en route to the picturesque Crystal Mill, six miles east of Marble in Gunnison County. Just how big a mistake did the GPS make? Well, it sent the driver up the very steep, very narrow and very rocky Daniels Hill — a road navigable only. The misguidance left the big rig jack-knifed across the road for 40 hours until three tow trucks could remove it. Samantha Smith Wilkey, owner of Crystal River Jeep Tours, said she lost 10 bookings while the road was blocked, but she doesn’t blame the driver. “The driver went above and beyond,” she told . “It’s not the trucking company. It’s the GPS software company.” Smith Wilkey added that misguided guidance systems are misguiding drivers to remote forestry roads rather than the correct routes to Gunnison or even Denver, concluding: “There is a glitch in this area.” Yes — and apparently a glitch in the matrix.
