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Help! GPS put him at someone elses address

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Dozeydate · 18/08/2025 10:01

My partner goes his mates house every week for drinks in the evening and gets a taxi there and back using a taxi app. I noticed while he was using the app that there was a recent address there that wasn’t his mates. I checked this address and it was about 800 meters (a good few streets away) from his mates house, 10 min walk. I asked him why it was there and he said he was at his mates as normal and he ordered a taxi from his mates but there must have been a glitch with the GPS and the taxi went there instead so he called another, then he also said it went there and it called him and he redirected it to his mates house where he was waiting… he can’t remember which because we was drunk. I checked the email receipt and the completed rides and they say that the taxi was ordered form the mystery address at early hours in the morning to our home. He said he has no idea how it’s happened as he was 100% picked up from outside his mates house. This has never glitched before, all other taxi rides have picked him up from his mates house; it’s on every receipt.
I did a bit more digging and found one of his business invoices to that exact address from 12 months ago. Tell me please… can a taxi app gps mess up that much that it pings you into a competely different street even though he orders a taxi every week for years? And how likely is it that this random
address has also been a previous customer of his company? He said he does not remember the customer because he didn’t deal with them and he was absolutely picked up from his mates and has never been to that address and it’s all a coincidence and glitch.

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OverlyFragrant · 18/08/2025 10:05

Highly doubt the GPS is wrong.

But why are you snooping on your partner to such an extent.

That is not the kind of relationship with a healthy dynamic.

CloudPop · 18/08/2025 10:41

That’s one hell of a “glitch and coincidence”

Mrsttcno1 · 18/08/2025 10:43

At the point you’re digging and snooping this much the relationship is over anyway- relationships are not this hard.

RealEagle · 18/08/2025 10:50

So he done a job for someone last year.Now getting taxi’s to and from the house once a week.Sorry but it’s not looking good is it .Has anything else changed?

its2025 · 18/08/2025 10:56

I'm guessing you must have suspected something anyway to be looking at his GPS location in the first place?

On its own I would say yes any app can have a glitch and put you in the wrong location - Sat Nav does that from time to time doesn't it.

However with the invoice that would make one hell of a coincidence. How was his behaviour while he was defending this as a glitch?? Could he be gaslighting you and covering his tracks or did he seem innocent?

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 18/08/2025 11:04

Uber will sometimes want to pick me up from completely the wrong place if I order it from inside a house. It's because my phone can't connect to the GPS satellite when I'm inside the house, so it has to try and triangulate off of mobile phone towers instead. It can get it 800m wrong easily.

I have to correct it manually, and I can imagine not noticing if I was drunk. If the uber driver had to phone him to find out when he was, then the original pick up location on the receipt would still show the wrong address.

So on it's own I wouldn't see this as a smoking gun. But given that you've been digging into his account in the first place, I'm guessing this isn't the only bit of evidence you've got.

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