If you leave the city & cell service behind, Google will try to kill you. I do NOT recommend this app for travelling in remote areas, especially during the winter where being stranded for an extended period could be fatal. Google does not seem to take road conditions or storm warnings into account and often tries to give us routes over the worst mountain passes in the worst conditions. Even if you select a safe route initially, Google Maps will often re-route you onto the dangerous roads with little or no warning. To make matters worse, in offline mode, it seems to always choose the shortest distance directing us off well traveled highways onto unmaintained county roads filled with tire-eating craters, roaming cattle, and all sorts of other hazards. This last trip was the last straw, when I found myself traversing a "highway" where my tracks were the only tires tracks at all in the snow and I drove for 3 hours without seeing another car or even a property with the glow of electric lighting. While I survived, I worry greatly about the next family Google sends into a similar situation that's not in a 4x4 truck with mud & snow tires and emergency provisions. If it hasn't already, I strongly believe this app is going to be responsible for a number of deaths.