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Anyone who uses a satnav regularly knows the feeling of looking at the directions being given - or actually trying to follow them - and wondering "WTF?" Try an experiment and plug one of your regular destinations into your satnav and see what it spit out; seven times out of ten you'll wonder "Why would it tell me to go that way?"
A driver in England has once again followed the instructions from his car's GPS system as if he were Abraham heeding instructions from The Almighty. Headed to a friend's house, the driver was told by his GPS to go up a steep walking path, and he did so. Luckily the path was lined by a fence, because when the driver crested a hill, he slid down the path and into the fence, which stopped him from going over a 100-foot cliff.
Fortunately, he was unhurt, although charged with careless driving. Never forget: trust your good sense before you trust your satnav...
[Source: The MIrror (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2009/03/25/sat-nav-disaster-driver-charged-as-bmw-gets-stuck-on-cliff-edge-115875-21225565/)]Example #4,239 why sat-nav isn't always to be trusted (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/example-4-239-why-sat-nav-isnt-always-to-be-trusted/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Anyone who uses a satnav regularly knows the feeling of looking at the directions being given - or actually trying to follow them - and wondering "WTF?" Try an experiment and plug one of your regular destinations into your satnav and see what it spit out; seven times out of ten you'll wonder "Why would it tell me to go that way?"
A driver in England has once again followed the instructions from his car's GPS system as if he were Abraham heeding instructions from The Almighty. Headed to a friend's house, the driver was told by his GPS to go up a steep walking path, and he did so. Luckily the path was lined by a fence, because when the driver crested a hill, he slid down the path and into the fence, which stopped him from going over a 100-foot cliff.
Fortunately, he was unhurt, although charged with careless driving. Never forget: trust your good sense before you trust your satnav...
[Source: The MIrror (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2009/03/25/sat-nav-disaster-driver-charged-as-bmw-gets-stuck-on-cliff-edge-115875-21225565/)]Example #4,239 why sat-nav isn't always to be trusted (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/example-4-239-why-sat-nav-isnt-always-to-be-trusted/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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