G-spotter Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmncwrtr Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Too bad you can't teach common sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-rock Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Maybe we should outlaw trains. They are always killing people and not paying with jail time. Plus, they are noisy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted May 17, 2007 Author Share Posted May 17, 2007 Maybe we should outlaw burkshards. Then, only outlaws would have burkshards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Too bad you can't teach common sense. actually thats what your parents are suposed to do..its not gene or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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