Friday, 27 March 2009

Satellite navigation systems

My cousin Sara would love this story! Man + Sat Nav = Bad things may happen!!! Having flashbacks to our Alton Towers trip and a few of my journeys to Manchester, lol.

ARTICLE:

Driver makes a sat-gaffe
A motorist who drove through a fence and ended up teetering on a 30m (100ft) cliff after following his sat-nav has been charged with careless driving.
Robert Jones plunged down a near-vertical footpath and narrowly escaped a fatal drop in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
'It kept insisting the path was a road even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I just trusted it,' said Mr Jones, from Doncaster, who drives for a living.
It took a recovery team nine hours to pull his BMW to safety – before he was ticked off by police.

Bad sat nav - wondering if the "common sense" setting was switched off? :P

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