Some People Are Too Stupid To Use A GPS while Driving |
| Published: July 8, 2008, 9:00 am |
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Maybe it’s a problem with people buying lower-end GPS devices. Maybe it’s the GPS’s inability to take the width or steepness (or condition of paving) of a road into account. Maybe it’s large portions of consumer brains continuing to die off as they doggedly pursue technological aids where they once needed none. Whatever it is, the problem of drivers getting lost, stuck or otherwise causing problems for themselves and others have actually, according to a recent, hilarious article at news.com.au, led police to plead with the public to just cut it out already with the GPSs. With an alarming regularity, drivers are faithfully — happily, confidently, cheerfully we’d even bet — following their GPSs where they are told and ending up lost or worse. Each turn prompt is a unerring command from a digital god — after all, serious cartographers and computer technicians, scientists, are behind the technology, and they certainly [ Full article ] |
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