How utterly delicate and vulnerable technology and society today actually is

[Arcticdude]

I saw a perfect example of just what can go wrong this morning. A whopping great articulated lorry jammed under the railway bridge in town because the driver blindly followed his satnav and failed to observe the low bridge sign!

Your absolutely correct Sally. Many people get GPS units and use them without first understanding them. They just plug them in and go. I remember hearing a few years about a couple that were going somewhere, can't remember where now. They entered in their destination and started driving. The GPS was set for "Shortest Route" so it took them up some mountain roads and they got stuck in the snow. They ended up dying because they blindly followed the directions on the GPS. They didn't understand that the shortest route isn't always the best route. Plus they didn't question why the GPS would take them off the highway and on to unplowed mountain roads. Some people have become too dependent on technology that they lose their common sense.

 

[DrHenley]

I'm constantly having arguments with Google navigation.
"Turn right"
"NO I'm NOT going that way"
"Make a U turn"
"NOT DOING IT, SHUT UP"
"Recalculting" (ETA drops by two minutes)
"You are on the fastest route, and the route is clear"
"TOLD YOU SO!

 

[Silent Earth]

We get eeejits often blindly following sat navs down slips into rivers and habours cos they dont realise there is a ferry. other drive into river fords in floods cos the sat nav tells them to, I call it evolution at work.

 

[Silent Earth]

I'm constantly having arguments with Google navigation.
"Turn right"
"NO I'm NOT going that way"
"Make a U turn"
"NOT DOING IT, SHUT UP"
"Recalculting" (ETA drops by two minutes)
"You are on the fastest route, and the route is clear"
"TOLD YOU SO!

Have you noticed its nearly always a female voice that does the GPS nagging as well.

 

[SheilaT.]

Have you noticed its nearly always a female voice that does the GPS nagging as well.

Only because you men won't change it to the male voice, just so you can say that.

 

[jimLE]

this is what i saw one year in orlando..but a diff company..

 

[WGregMiller]

How about this? They finally banned semis from US129 because of

This is the road

 

[jimLE]

i love my gps directions for a faster route than my mom's slower routes..we went to my nephews for turkey day.took the gps route there.took the route mom and nephew agreed on.gps route is faster by 15 to 20 minutes

 

[bigpaul]

we are forever seeing articulated trucks stuck in Devons narrow lanes, usually on a tight bend.
woman not so long ago drove her car into the middle of a raging river at a ford because her sat nav told her so, her husband-the passenger- was swept away and drowned, she only survived because someone was brave enough to jump in and drag her out of the car.