GPS Navigation for Dummies

[G-spotter]

Subject: Another sat-nav accident: car destroyed, driver escapes

 

Accepting satellite-navigation directions without sufficient thought has caused another accident. A young woman in Great Britain followed its directions onto a country lane which was blocked by a gate. At first she thought it was a dead end, she said, but "the sat nav insisted it was the correct way so I opened it and drove through."

 

After the first gate there was a second one, so she got out to close the first gate and open the second one, apparently not thinking about why there might be two gates across a road, or why there was a sign saying to proceed "if the light is green". (None of the news reports I found says any more about that light than that the sign existed.)

 

while she was out of her car, a train came along the tracks and demolished it.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/6646331.stm

 

How soon before someone on Hood follows GPS track into a crevasse?

[rmncwrtr]

Too bad you can't teach common sense.

[catbirdseat]

Usually train tracks are pretty easy to spot. Generally, one might suspect that there is at least a chance that a train might travel on said tracks.

[E-rock]

They need to outlaw these goddamn GPS devices. They're just a recipe for destruction. Someone tell Big Brother to put criminalization with stiff penalties on their list because we're too stupid to use GPS responsibly. I think my GPS-head neighbors have a lab or something next door, and their damn kids wander around the neighborhood, directionally challenged because of being GPS-babies.

[archenemy]

Maybe we should outlaw trains. They are always killing people and not paying with jail time. Plus, they are noisy.

[G-spotter]

Maybe we should outlaw burkshards. Then, only outlaws would have burkshards.

[jmace]

Too bad you can't teach common sense.

 

actually thats what your parents are suposed to do..its not gene or something