I treat the GPS just like I treat my wife with a map. Trust, but confirm.
But Honey... I kept that north thingy pointed at the windsheild...isnt that always north?
~Hill
Warning to GPS owners-incorrect travel info-car destroyed
by worldtraveller 14 Replies latest jw friends
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hillbilly
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NeonMadman
This post is mis-titled. There was nothing incorrect about the travel info. The directions were correct. The function of a GPS unit is to give directions, not to notify the driver of existing road conditions. The driver was an idiot and his car got destroyed as a result of his idiocy. In no way should the GPS be considered to be at fault.
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primitivegenius
there was a lawsuit in Indiana a few years back. Seems a class A motor home owner went to the galley to get food. She was driving at the time. I guess the coach tore up a few miles of Arizona highways but no one was hurt.
She won the suit against the coach builder. The manual was not specific in that the cruise control still needed somebody up front to steer the bus.
not only did this person win their court case............ they got MILLIONS in damages. won a rassy award or something for the most ignorant lawsuit that paid off for a person........... but i heard it was an elderly man not a woman........
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DJK
not only did this person win their court case............ they got MILLIONS in damages. won a rassy award or something for the most ignorant lawsuit that paid off for a person........... but i heard it was an elderly man not a woman........there was a lawsuit in Indiana a few years back. Seems a class A motor home owner went to the galley to get food. She was driving at the time. I guess the coach tore up a few miles of Arizona highways but no one was hurt.
She won the suit against the coach builder. The manual was not specific in that the cruise control still needed somebody up front to steer the bus.
It was a Stella Award. http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp Turns out the story of the Winnebago isnt true. You have to remember, GPS isnt intended to guide or protect you when your driving in a fog whether it be a real fog or the fog in your head.
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nelly136
reminds me of an old (lada?) car advert, designed by computer, built by robot, driven by moron!
the sat navs users are having a slight problem over here too, it seems engage sat nav and remove brain applies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6646331.stm
"I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she said.
"The crossing wasn't shown on the sat nav, there were no signs at all and it wasn't lit up to warn of an oncoming train.
"Obviously I had never done the journey before so I was using the sat nav - completely dependent on it," she said.
"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it
"I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through.
"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me.
"Then I heard this train and I noticed train tracks. It was only then that I did realise I was on a train crossing.
"I just stood back and I just watched this train come in front of me.
"I could feel the air just pass me and then my car just did a 360 degree turn on the tracks and was knocked to the other side."
She said her initial thought when she heard the horn had been to get into her car and move it.
"It was so quick that if I had done that, I would have been in the car when it was hit," she said.
foreign companies are providing their drivers your everyday sat navs, but the obviously the sat navs are not programmed to know they're in a jugganaut.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6957429.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6241228.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/5234396.stm
A driver whose cheese lorry was stuck down a narrow farm track in a village has blamed his satellite navigation system for giving him wrong directions.
There was some damage to the roofs of two cottages as the Belgian driver drove through Drefelin, Carmarthenshire to pick up a consignment of cheese.
Despite six hours of attempting to recover the truck on Monday, it had remained trapped overnight.
Trees had to be cut back before the lorry was finally freed on Tuesday.