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It’s a mapping glitch for the technological age.

Earlier this week, London resident Erika Simpson watched two drivers attempt to cross the newly repaired, century-old Blackfriars Bridge.

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The catch? They were going the wrong way on a bridge that’s open for only one-way car traffic.

The culprit? It might just be GPS.

“The (first) person, we thought was maybe just a drunk driver,” Simpson said. But later that same day, when she stopped the second vehicle headed west on the eastbound bridge, she heard a different complaint.

“They were clearly perplexed,” she said of the folks in the vehicle. Simpson, a Western University political scientist and contributor to The London Free Press, went to speak to the driver.

“She was a mother, and she said, ‘I’m taking my daughter to Western University, and it’s telling me to go across the bridge.’ The problem is that the GPS is leading them to take a quick route. It must not be registering,” Simpson said.