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  • Your GPS Is Lying to You (But Physics Isn’t)

    Your GPS Is Lying to You (But Physics Isn’t)

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    You trust your navigation app more than most people in your life. It says “11 minutes”, so you believe “11 minutes”. Then reality, traffic and one mysterious closed street transform that into 27 minutes and a minor existential crisis. The app was not trying to hurt you. It was simply built on a model that…