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Re: A GPS story
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Jul 13, 07:14 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Jul 13, 07:14 +0100
Frank wrote: >There was another "GPS" story recently here locally in which a woman >claimed that her car had ended up in a bunker (sand trap) on a golf >course because her GPS told her to turn there. And that's how the tv >news prefaced the story: "her GPS did it". The story concluded >"police charged her with DUI and found that she was well over the >legal alcohol limit". Yeah, that makes more sense. There was a case some years ago when BMW first had an in-car GPS system. A driver in his new BMW was driving up a road next to the Rhine when his in-car GPS system instructed him to turn left - despite the fact that the bridge that was supposed to be there, obviously wasn't..... He wasn't drunk, just a good German who did what he was told. Geoffrey
