A in car GPS led a Quebec medical student to a wrong destination that could have led to her dying. Stephanie who is 22 left home to go to a medical residency when her GPS led her the wrong way and she got stuck in the snow. She said that she would have tried to stay there till spring. The GPS led her to a place with no cell phone reception so she could not call for help. Lucky for her, her mom had packed a cooler full of food and soft drinks and a blanket and pillow. She had stayed in her car for 3 days. Stephanie was rescued when three snowmobiler's came across her. When they came to rescue her she was crying. She is lucky that she was found that day as if she would have stayed another night she might have not made it because the weather was going to drop to -30C that night. She had an emotional reunion with her dad when she came back. I think that this is a really dangerous situation that a GPS can lead someone to a place with no cell phone reception and basically a deserted place. I don't know if this was Stephanie's fault for putting in the wrong destination which it could have been but she had put in the right destination then GPS companies have to investigate what went wrong with their GPS to lead her to the wrong destination.
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