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Posted on: 2009/5/21 14:05
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Sweet90 | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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Well that explains why my shares in MAPS'R'US just went up today
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Posted on: 2009/5/21 14:13
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bogus | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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We have a Thomas Guide...
The USAF will get this straight... lives depend on it. |
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Posted on: 2009/5/21 14:41
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CentralCoaster | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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In other news:
Driver Led To 100ft Cliff Edge By Sat Nav 3:40pm UK, Wednesday March 25, 2009 A driver has blamed his sat nav for leaving his car teetering on the edge of a cliff after he followed its instructions. Car dragged from cliff top after sat nav 'nightmare'. Pic: Ross Parry/Halifax Courier Robert Jones said he trusted his navigational system and continued to follow it when it told him the steep, narrow footpath he was driving on was a road. Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, now faces court action for driving without due care and attention. His BMW nearly plunged down a 100ft cliff in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on Sunday. He was only stopped from falling after the vehicle rammed into a wire fence. Police and rescue teams then spent nine hours recovering his car following the incident. "It's all well and good trusting your sat nav but how about trusting your eyes and when there's not a road in front of you, don't keep driving." Onlooker The 43-year-old, who works as a driver, said he relies on his sat nav for his job and described the incident as a "nightmare". He told the Halifax Evening Courier: "It kept insisting the path was a road, even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I just trusted it. "You don't expect to be taken nearly over a cliff." Mr Jones added: "I guess I'm just lucky the car didn't slip all the way over the edge." The drama attracted crowds of onlookers in the picturesque market town that borders the Pennines. One said: "It's like something off the Italian Job, but what a waste of police time. "It's all well and good trusting your sat nav but how about trusting your eyes and when there's not a road in front of you, don't keep driving." A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Officers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road. "The driver was a 43-year-old man from Doncaster. He has been summonsed to court for driving without due care and attention." |
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BillH | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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Posted on: 2009/5/21 15:37
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BrianCunningham | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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Isn't "FOR REFERENCE ONLY" in the fine print someplace?
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Posted on: 2009/5/21 15:50
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Posted on: 2009/5/21 15:59
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CentralCoaster | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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Had that wire fence not stopped him, stupid would've fixed itself via a 100ft drop.
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Posted on: 2009/5/21 16:31
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DreamRide | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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That's as bad as the old joke about the guy that set the cruise control in his RV and went to the back to get something to eat.
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Posted on: 2009/5/21 21:34
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400hp427vette | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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I have been all over the US with my gps and I have also been led down more thanone dirt road that had me thinking WTF this can't be right. But is has been so far. A few in north dakota scared the $H!t out of me and even one in Winona MN sign read unmaintained road drive at you own risk. So I could see the drivers point of view
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Posted on: 2009/5/22 3:02
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Dads90 | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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OH great, That 400 dollar GPS Golf Caddy I got for my birthday,,,,,, well don't tell my wife. She'll want me to take it back.
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Posted on: 2009/5/25 3:31
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Matatk | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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I like this quote in the article "It blamed the US Air Force, which runs the worldwide system free of charge and is responsible for modernising it"
I've got an idea - how about we charge every other country in the world for using our "free" GPS system? Do a study on who uses it the most (trust me, we can do studies on anything) and tell them that if they don't cough up $xxxxxx (cost based on country size and usage) for upgrades the GPS system will no longer function. Matthew |
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Matatk | Re: Keep those road maps handy | ||
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But that's not being on the road, it's for finding the golf balls you sliced into the woods Matthew |
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Posted on: 2009/5/25 12:48
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