Engineering News

Let's hope Garmin doesn't get the contract, given the quality I've seen to date. That mortar may end up causing *nothing but* collateral damage. Same for the Navigator app on my Android phone. I was in Denver, Colorado and on my way Texas. It gave instructions to go *north* then turn on Hwy 36 to Boulder - northwest of Denver - and showed a pic of a checkered flag inside Boulder which Navigator identified as being Austin, Texas. I have three GPS apps on my phone. Neither they nor the Garmin could locate the address of my daughter's dentist, an address which has existed for at least thirty years. True to form, both the Garmin and the Navigator told me to drive to spots in the middle of nowhere. The remaining apps simply could not locate the address and said so. All three and the Garmin correctly displayed my current location, so it must be a problem with their databases. Garmin keeps urging me to purchase an updated map even though I just did so, once their website was working again. Even with the latest map, my Garmin still doesn't correctly show some roads which have been there for at least fifty years. I don't know why they allow such shoddy products to see the light of day, but I hope the Navy uses a different vendor.