Hey all, I never post anything however I cannot find anything on any social media or anywhere else remotely near what I experienced in the Navajo and Hopi Reservations from the hours of around 00:00-03:00. I attend college in the state of Arizona, and driving home for Christmas break my girlfriend and I chose to complete as much of the drive at night as possible. This meant the Navajo and Hopi Reservation portion of our drive fell roughly in the hours I listed making it pitch black during this portion of our travel. My car is equipped with a screen on my dashboard that displays Google Maps and within some amount of time after entering the reservation, my route started adding jagged and strange loops off the main highway (160) that if selected said would add anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes of travel time while seemingly only being maybe a quarter mile. At first this was explainable because the route "alternatives" were coordinated with either driveways or utility routes, but after about 15 minutes of us noticing this the correspondence stopped and just random detours were left with no explainable attached entry off the highway.
We both were a little freaked out by that and other early morning oddities like a random Rivian truck being the only car we ever had pass us while headlights and distant taillights never caught up or were caught up to.
I'm speculating, and unfortunately I did not get a picture, but the routes looked weirdly like some written language and were definitely not what roads look like. Some examples of what Google was displaying were sharp edges, triangle loops on the end of a straight line orthogonal to the highway (this I remember the most), very erratic zig-zags, and other weird knots.
Anything at all helpful or informative on this would be immense to me because I cannot find anything anywhere else online and a family friend of mine said she had something similar happen about four months ago with her GPS on the same highway (this is what spurred me to actually write a damn chat board plea).
Ask me any questions that might help clarify or explain my experience.
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[link] [comments]Hey all, I never post anything however I cannot find anything on any social media or anywhere else remotely near what I experienced in the Navajo and Hopi Reservations from the hours of around 00:00-03:00. I attend college in the state of Arizona, and driving home for Christmas break my girlfriend and I chose to complete as much of the drive at night as possible. This meant the Navajo and Hopi Reservation portion of our drive fell roughly in the hours I listed making it pitch black during this portion of our travel. My car is equipped with a screen on my dashboard that displays Google Maps and within some amount of time after entering the reservation, my route started adding jagged and strange loops off the main highway (160) that if selected said would add anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes of travel time while seemingly only being maybe a quarter mile. At first this was explainable because the route "alternatives" were coordinated with either driveways or utility routes, but after about 15 minutes of us noticing this the correspondence stopped and just random detours were left with no explainable attached entry off the highway. We both were a little freaked out by that and other early morning oddities like a random Rivian truck being the only car we ever had pass us while headlights and distant taillights never caught up or were caught up to. I'm speculating, and unfortunately I did not get a picture, but the routes looked weirdly like some written language and were definitely not what roads look like. Some examples of what Google was displaying were sharp edges, triangle loops on the end of a straight line orthogonal to the highway (this I remember the most), very erratic zig-zags, and other weird knots. Anything at all helpful or informative on this would be immense to me because I cannot find anything anywhere else online and a family friend of mine said she had something similar happen about four months ago with her GPS on the same highway (this is what spurred me to actually write a damn chat board plea). Ask me any questions that might help clarify or explain my experience. submitted by /u/fellowsandmen [link] [comments]
