Fake maps fox Shanghai drivers

According to the BBC, drivers in China's largest city, Shanghai - already cursing traffic jams and roads being ripped up in a building boom - face a new challenge.

GPS navigation systems designed to help people reach a destination are getting them lost instead - because some of them use counterfeit (and faulty) electronic maps.

The Shanghai Daily said drivers were tempted to buy the counterfeit maps because they were much cheaper.

Fake maps now far exceeded the number of legal ones, the paper reported".

emily | 8:51 AM | Localisation |
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