Mar 25 2009
Satnav blunders or whatchamacallit?
A BMW driver and owner, Robert Jones, almost fell into a 100 ft. cliff all because he depended so much on his satnav. How stupid can one get? I mean even if the satnav was telling him it that the cliff was a road but haven’t he got eyes?Has he got no sense anymore? Blaming the brainless satnav was rather bemusing as well.
This is not the first time an accident occured because the drivers believed their faulty satnavs. A couple of weeks ago I read another news with a similar headline. A truck rammed into a house because he entered in a deadend road and there was not enough space for him to u-turn.
Well, satnavs are not all that bad. My brother drives around the states and he was able to find our lone relatives guided by his “Magellan”. And I thought these gadgets are amazing. But we can’t really rely on them 101% at all times can we? We still have to use our most common senses and let our minds function!
News Source: UK Yahoo News
