Maybe if they had a vehicle equipped with OnStar it would of had a happier ending. OnStar has the most powerful cell phone available...a full three watts of transmitting power. Not the 6/10ths of a watt in your handheld. They are useless if your slightly outside a service area. OnStar has been able to reach a cell tower 20 miles away with the antenna broken off in a rollover. They could of also used OnStar's directions service. The imbedded GPS gives the exact location. They wouldn't have gotten lost. Sorry for the shameless OnStar plug, but the system does work very effectively and has saved many lives. As the old saying goes....no brains, no headaches.
Right. I didn't see your post before I posted mine, but still I am wondering whether the onboard computer systems in cars work when people are out of range or in mountains or whatever. (Not that this car even was equipped with Onstar or any other GPS system, and we don't know.)
It would be the same thing with boats.
What it all comes down to is common sense. We can't rely upon technology to find us. It does not make sense to go exploring in a park in the winter and get off the main roads when you are en route to a resort over on the Pacific coast.
This is not a good situation for a wife to ask, "Why didn't you stop to ask for directions?"
