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Even odder than the daft behaviour I posted as 'Cars sunk' on 1/4/06.
It is hard to believe that anyone, even a motorist, could be so stupid as to drive straight into a deep ford just because their SatNav told them to. It strengthens my conviction that there is a negative correlation between intelligence & chosing car travel. Perhaps it is a case of the phenomenon sociologist Anthony Giddens called 'techno-primitivism' - where people become so used to relying upon technology which they do not understand that they treat it in much the way pre-scientific people treated magic, and believe in it in the face of all common sense. (Maybe confusing info. from the sky with divine inspiration and thinking they could drive on water ??). Jon |
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Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/...757228,00.html And another http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/g...re/4924242.stm Next we'll have a story about SatNav being blamed for speeding -- Tony "The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right." - Lord Hailsham |
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Tony Raven wrote:
heed wrote: Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/...757228,00.html And another http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/g...re/4924242.stm Next we'll have a story about SatNav being blamed for speeding Or a crash where someone's not seen because the driver has no night vision due to a backlit sat nav situated right next to the wing mirror. -- Ambrose |
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In article , Tony Raven (junk@raven-
family.com) wrote: heed wrote: Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/...757228,00.html And another http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/g...re/4924242.stm Next we'll have a story about SatNav being blamed for speeding And even URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4879026.stm -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ Odd, is it not, how all roads lead inexorably to David Icke? |
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"Dave Larrington" wrote in message t... In article , Tony Raven (junk@raven- family.com) wrote: heed wrote: Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/...757228,00.html And another http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/g...re/4924242.stm Next we'll have a story about SatNav being blamed for speeding And even URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4879026.stm -- And there's more! http://tinyurl.com/np24c The country lane in Birch Green, Essex referred to is at the end of the lane I live in, so has provided some amusement, but when the article refers to it as an unclassified road it is wrong. It's a farm track with a name which is marked on the OS map as a public footpath only. (Thinks, being a law abiding sort of chap I've refrained from riding the mountainbike there but perhaps I'll just say that the satnav made me do it ;-) ) And of course there was the Dutch juggernaut which turned up yesterday straight off the ferry actually trying to find Birch Green. The driver, who must be the only Dutchman in existence without a word of English (in the wrong job surely?), had programmed his satnav for Birch Green, without knowing that he wanted the one in Hertfordshire. Took some turning round that one did! |
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heed wrote:
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/...757228,00.html Btw, that story is even funnier when you see it in print with the accompanying picture. d. |
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Dave Larrington wrote:
URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4879026.stm "I have committed a lot of traffic offences because of my sat nav," he says. "It often tells me to go the wrong way down one-way streets in Paisley. It tells me to take right-hand turns when it is illegal and it sends me down bus and taxi lanes. I bought it to make my life easier, but it is useless." Well, there you are. These things are no help to the terminally stupid. -- Dave... |
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Tony Raven wrote:
Next we'll have a story about SatNav being blamed for speeding From the link posted by Budstaff: *************** Stewart Lockhart, an ambulance service employee from Alexandria, near Dumbarton, who has installed a £400 TomTom system in his car, has discovered that his increased reliance on the technology has meant he has fallen foul of the law. "I have committed a lot of traffic offences because of my sat nav," he says. "It often tells me to go the wrong way down one-way streets in Paisley. It tells me to take right-hand turns when it is illegal and it sends me down bus and taxi lanes. I bought it to make my life easier, but it is useless." *************** As your teacher always used to say when you blamed your mate for leading you astray: "If Jimmy told you to jump off a cliff, would you?" d. |
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