I still remember vividly the death of James Kim, the CNET reporter who died because GPS lead him and his family onto a small mountain road that shouldn&#x27;t have been opened in the first place.  I didn&#x27;t know him personally, but he was a close friend of a friend, and as the events were unfolding, daily I could see the worry and pain in my friend&#x27;s face, until he was found dead (but his family was miraculously found alive).  This happened about 10 years ago in the mountains in Oregon, notoriously treacherous during the winter.<p>Surprisingly, my neighbor revently described to me how she almost died in the same area by following GPS, just last winter, almost 9 years later.  They blindly went up a mountain road in the snow as they were trying to drive to Portland from the Bay Area, and they went to the point where they could barely turn their car around.  Had they attempted to stop later, they would have gotten stuck and it would have turned into a similar story.<p>Unfortunately, GPS needs a setting labelled &quot;follow the safest, biggest roads&quot;.