[Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

[Bill Ricker]

Kevin asks,
> is Jefferson Notch Road actually closed to wheeled vehicles in winter or
just not maintained?

Per copyright news reports, it is signed as closed to wheeled vehicles,
open to snow-machines only, in winter.
(As should be obvious, to correctly tag this according to our license, we
do need some on-the ground or license0compatible verification of the facts
form the news, as well as a decision on what tags to use.)

OSM has a gate node at at least the south end, with a note calling for more
details. Unclear if it's an actual gate or the seasonal prohibition sign
encoded as a gate. (Problem with gates being if it's locked, and then
frozen, the larger rescue cats/ATV or fire trucks may have to fight it
open. The ATVs that  rescued these folks probably needed any gate open to
get up after them, let alone the tow that recovered the car?)

On the side topic of "The GPS made me do it", I just found out Tim Harford
aka "The Undercover Economist" closes season 1 of his new Podcast
"Cautionary Tales", discussing mistakes and learning from them, with Ep.8  You
have reached your desination
<http://timharford.com/2019/12/cautionary-tales-ep-8-you-have-reached-your-desination/>
drawing a connection from Greek Oracles to over-faith in modern SATNAV.
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