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Maybe this is why it took so long for Apple to allow turn-by-turn applications into the App Store.
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Driver Nearly Dies From Following GPS Instructions
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Maybe this is why it took so long for Apple to allow turn-by-turn applications into the App Store.
You arguably deserve to be removed from the gene pool if you decide to follow an electronic voice off the edge of a cliff. Fricking idiot.
I was reading this yesterday and I wondered to myself:
At what stage does common sense kick in?
How about that gut-level self-preservation instinct?
Some people are just born plain stupid.
At what stage does common sense kick in?
How about that gut-level self-preservation instinct?
Some people are just born plain stupid.
How ironic... AppleInsider just posted this article: Apple filing details safe touch-screen navigation system
I think BMW has the patent on that already, perhaps MB too, and Lexus ... sorry Apple, too late on that one
This article reminds me of the joke that I used to use as my email sig: "I'm convinced my GPS hates me. It keeps telling me to turn when I'm on a bridge".
Sounds like the GPS doesn't like him
Sounds like the GPS doesn't like him
QFT. To bad he didn't keep driving.
Once while driving through Arizona about a year ago, my GPS started saying I was off road and to make a right turn soon so I could get back on the road. I could clearly see that the road had been shifted a few hundred feet to the right so there was now a huge seperator in between both directions. This was in the middle of the desert somewhere and the GPS software hadn't been updated to reflect the change. If I would have followed it's instructions, I would have been driving through the desert running over plants and bushes and things. I was tempted to do so just so I could blame it on the GPS.
A new generation of men rejoices as now, they are never lost.
In other news, a new scrapyard is being built at the bottom of Breakneck Gorge. The owner was quoted as saying, "When I heard about the location becoming available, I knew it was too good to pass up."
In other news, a new scrapyard is being built at the bottom of Breakneck Gorge. The owner was quoted as saying, "When I heard about the location becoming available, I knew it was too good to pass up."
We nearly died when we went to Mont Tremblant following the GPS. Well, I'm exaggerating.
We followed the GPS through the mountain route instead of the highway route. It would be fine if we weren't driving a rental Colbalt with all seasons going up a curvy hill for an hour with 5 inches of snow on the ground, ditch on either side and SUVs tailgating and honking at us.
We followed the GPS through the mountain route instead of the highway route. It would be fine if we weren't driving a rental Colbalt with all seasons going up a curvy hill for an hour with 5 inches of snow on the ground, ditch on either side and SUVs tailgating and honking at us.
Quite - this guy deserves everything coming to him- repair bill for car and driving fine.
Doug
Well, to be fair to the driver, there are plenty of rural roads in the UK and Ireland that would barely qualify as a footpath. The path in the picture posted above doesn't look any worse than the single lane (and I mean single lane, if you meet traffic one of you has to pull off into a gateway) public road you would take to get to my in-law's house in Mayo.