10 February 2026

Afro SatNav Fail

When GPS and maps fail hard

 When baboons are in charge of the roads

 Ever had maps tell you to U-turn on the highway? Or disagree with the road signage? Or lead you 10 miles off course onto a dead-end farm road? Or tell you the point of departure and the destination are in the same direction?

If you think maps must have gone haywire, it didn't. What it encountered is the maddening stupidity of whichever idiots were in charge of naming roads. See if you can spot the problem here...


Yes! No fewer than FOUR major roads are all called the same thing, but that's not the actual issue. That map is in fact wrong, it is, in reality...

Yes sir, to make matters exponentially worse, the National Highway is called the same thing as all the other roads, but only for 5 miles. However, we are still not at the real problem.

The road on the left doesn't have a name. To go south you ignore both turnoffs to the road you want and instead take road you don't want and if you miss your exit, the road you're on magically becomes the road you originally wanted. For a short while.

Fortunately, here, the issues with the roads result in massive numbers of deaths and piles of wrecked cars, which... wait for it... leads to even more deaths and crashed cars, the afro version of natural selection.