Driver blames GPS for driving into icy Vermont lake
Police said no charges were filed because it's not against Vermont law to drive onto ice-covered waterways.
Waze is struggling to explain how a driver using the app wound up in Lake Champlain.
.The vehicle's owner, who had lent the auto to her friends for some local sight-seeing, said that she had assumed the instruction was a fluke - but upon trying to programme the route on her own phone, was also instructed to drive into the lake.
Waze pairs turn-by-turn Global Positioning System directions with user reports of accidents, traffic jams and police traps. "Waze maps are updated with millions of edits to adapt to real time road conditions daily, making them the most accurate available". For those unfamiliar with the app, Waze uses crowdsourced information to show drivers where they might encounter accidents, detours, police, or other traffic issues. Waze sends anonymous information, including users' speed and location, back to its database to improve the service as a whole.
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The app directed the drivers to turn onto the boat launch near the Coast Guard station. Next thing they knew, their Jeep was sinking into a lake. The app was developed by Waze Mobile, an Israeli company founded by Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine, funded by two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex, and an early-stage American venture capital firm Bluerun Ventures.
Guertin told the Burlington Free Press she initially believed the poor directions must have been a result of a glitch, but when she typed in the same destination again she was give the exact same directions to the boat launch.
The individuals involved were not charged or cited for the incident, Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo said Monday, according to WUSA. The officer at the scene, Padric Hartnett, said the driver willingly consented to field sobriety exercises and passed with no problem. According to the police report, the vehicle went into the lake on January 12 and had been in the water for over a week when removed.
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