Satellite Navigational Systems
I read recently about a woman who turned left up a railway line because her Sat Nav told her to. Err, "Hello", is she completely and utterly stupid? This woman should not be driving should she?
It really gets me mad that people make fundamental driving errors and then try and blame someone else. "The car made me do it", "My dog barked and I was so startled that I turned up the down ramp and drove 25 miles the wrong way up the M40", "My interior light came on by itself and so I shot my husband"....
No. What happened to common sense? These devices have a thing called a "map" and a "distance to junction" don't they? My Garmin does sensible things like "turn left in half a mile" and then at (or near) the junction it's "turn left". Not "hang a left as soon as I've finished speaking" but "turn left and have a little look to check the map to see where".
This woman should be another recipient of a pwsbk award.
Maybe she was ahead of the game and was trying to award herself.
"turn left"
It really gets me mad that people make fundamental driving errors and then try and blame someone else. "The car made me do it", "My dog barked and I was so startled that I turned up the down ramp and drove 25 miles the wrong way up the M40", "My interior light came on by itself and so I shot my husband"....
No. What happened to common sense? These devices have a thing called a "map" and a "distance to junction" don't they? My Garmin does sensible things like "turn left in half a mile" and then at (or near) the junction it's "turn left". Not "hang a left as soon as I've finished speaking" but "turn left and have a little look to check the map to see where".
This woman should be another recipient of a pwsbk award.
Maybe she was ahead of the game and was trying to award herself.
"turn left"
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