Why your GPS isnt always right

[kiwigeo]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/ ... 1v85m.html

[Nick]

I believe they (a government task group) are having an 'official' meeting with GPS mapping companies in the UK to try & work something out after several incident's such as this in Britain, cars trying to cross foot bridges and I even saw footage of an articulated truck that had gone down a narrow lane in a small country village, only to find it was a dead end, the driver couldn't then reverse it without taking the front off of somebody's house. They had to hire a massive crane to lift the trailer over the houses & onto a parallel road & then the cab/truck.
Mind you, I think it's a sad statement on today's technological society that they take these things so much as gospel without even using their own brain. Why would you drive onto a mud flat without thinking first "Hang on that 'road' looks a bit sus!"

[kiwigeo]

Why would you drive onto a mud flat without thinking first "Hang on that 'road' looks a bit sus!"

Too busy staring at your GPS?

[Lillian]

In some ways its no damn different than texting. You are staring a screen and not paying attention to whats around you. It has all your attention instead of you being responsible and aware of where you are and what you are doing. Just because it says to drive across a closed bridge doesn't mean you should do it. Be an active part of your world. There was a woman run over by the bus she had just gotten off of and walked in right in front it without even looking up. Stupid loss of life.

[kiwigeo]

It's my dream to die a quick death doing something really stupid......much better than a slow lingering death in a nursing home and it'll give anyone who comes to my funeral a good reason not to be gloomy and sad.

[Paul B]

Just goes to show how some people rely so heavily on technology that they expect it to do their thinking for them.