Please Turn Left Into The Ditch
Posted by Cottontimer on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Knick Knacks
One ambulance driver with a faulty satnav drove hundreds of miles in the wrong direction while transferring a patient from one hospital in Ilford east of London to another just eight miles (13 km) away.
I don’t trust the Sat Nav 100% either. If we go anywhere, I’ll usually print out directions from Google Maps just in case. We got our first GPS in the car when we were in Japan where they call it a “navi.” On day one, Marv set it with our home phone number, left the office, and it promptly led him down the wrong street to a dead end.
A few months ago, Stephen and I went to the Royal Air Force Museum with one of his classmates and his mom. She used her TomTom portable GPS and it led us to the middle of a highway and said we’d reached our destination! We ended up using a road atlas and about 20 minutes later, we finally found the museum. But not before we’d missed the last turn because the street sign had gotten flipped around and was pointing the wrong way. @#!
Have any crazy GPS sat nav stories to share?
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I’ve only been in a car using GPS once… it kept telling us to go over a border crossing (to Germany) that was closed. Luckily we found another one.
Whoa! That’s how World War III could get started.
Please continue straight for 500 meters into the demilitarized zone.
As a member of the communications technology sector … I know better than to trust software. A good solid map or atlas with the willingness to stop and ask ‘am I close?’ every so often has no substitute.
That, or I break out the compass and sextant.
Sex what?
Stop me now. I’ve been awful this week!!
I don’t use a sat nav, but my husband does, and we argue about it all the time. Although he usually trusts my judgment now, after the GPS tried to get us to turn right, right into Loch Ness.
Here’s my reasoning: A sat nav only knows two things, distance and speed. So it can tell you the shortest route based on those factors.
But my brain can take into account 7 or 8 factors, including road width and conditions, scenic beauty, traffic, roadworks, likelihood of seeing cute thatched villages, amenities such as service stations (better on a motorway), etc.
And not only did my brain cost less, but it’s a far less attractive target for thieves!
So my brain is clearly the better value!
Kathy, Perhaps one of the attractions of a sat nav is that it doesn’t argue. haHaha