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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sundowner on January 03, 2008, 06:10:02 PM
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Hang up the GPS and DRIVE!!
Regards,
Sun
Man using GPS drives in front of train
BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. - A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things — but apparently not when a train is coming. A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.
The driver had turned right, as the system advised, and the car somehow got stuck on the tracks at the crossing. He jumped out and tried to warn the engineer by waving. He got out of the way just before the train slammed into the car at 60 mph, Metro-North railroad spokesman Dan Brucker said Thursday.
The car was pushed more than 100 feet during the fiery crash.
Some 500 train passengers were stranded for more than two hours during the Wednesday evening rush hour. The accident also heavily damaged 250 feet of rail, Brucker said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080103/ap_on_fe_st/odd_gps_train_crash
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how do people get "stuck" on the train tracks..
car stalls? what are the ods of that? I mean.. God must want you dead..
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People are stupid.
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Clearly it must be the electronic devices fault or the rental companies. The fault could never lie with the driver.....
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Do they project the road maps onto the windshield now, thus preventing the driver from seeing any actual road?
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Funny... last time i was in my car with my TomTom running, I was the one driving, not the TomTom... am I doing something wrong?
:rolleyes:
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If you NEED a GPS unit to drive on surface streets, you should just do the world a favor and stay home. :aok
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Anyone wanna lend me 5k so I can buy a used Garmin 430 panel mount. I'm being humble, it's not like i'm asking for a G1000 here...please =).
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One of my coworkers is a "gadget king". He has a TomTom and was showing it off.
He drive 1.3 miles to work and seldom travels. wtf? :huh
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if they gave me a tomtom when it said turn right i would have to remember which way i still forget my lefts and rights
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In the OLD days we had a thing called a MAP and we used it before, during and sometimes after we drove.
Mac
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Originally posted by AWMac
In the OLD days we had a thing called a MAP and we used it before, during and sometimes after we drove.
Mac
As TP.
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
If you NEED a GPS unit to drive on surface streets, you should just do the world a favor and stay home. :aok
Yep!
For example, some gomer is driving down the highway. He needs to go to "Hoffman" and the sign along the highway says to turn right. However, the GPS doo-dad says to turn left. You cant turn left because there is no left. Only straight and a right turn.
Since gomer always relied on his gps, he is now officially lost and cannot navigate using DOT issued signs, markers, or other means of using common sense.
Seriously, if someone doesnt have enough common sense to read signs, read a map, or use basic common sense, they have no business behind a wheel.
What? My GPS died. I dont know how to read street signs. WAAAAAA im lost :cry
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Originally posted by AWMac
In the OLD days we had a thing called a MAP and we used it before, during and sometimes after we drove.
Mac
Ancient scrolls have been partially translated. These things called mapquest were supposedly used somehow back in the day. Scientists cannot figure out how to turn these documents on and ask them how they worked.
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I have an iPAQ that has TomTom loaded on it. I mostly use it for spits and giggles. While driving on a little Farm to Market road I know well it suddenly said "turn right". WTF, I'm on a straightaway? Then it said "turn left" followed by "turn left" and another "turn right".
I guess it wanted me to drive thru a couple of lawns then get back on the road.:huh
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I can see a new regulation that requires additional space in the front side of GPS for a large warning sticker. Perhaps also audio instructions will have to be preceeded by a warning.
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In the OLD days we had a thing called a MAP and we used it before, during and sometimes after we drove.
A maps only good if you know where you actually are ;)
...But a map and a GPS is a winning combo and does make travel so much more relaxing
I mean anyone who solely relies on a little computer to turn right and turn left blindly without total focus on the road and signposts, who doesn't actually check the route before setting off to see where they are headed to and towns on the way deserves to get lost...
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I use the GPS mainly for trip logging, we have some new freeway upgrades that now deviate from the original path. I used to hear "recalculating" a lot until I shut the voice prompts off.
:rofl
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Well......at least they didn`t burn themselves with hot coffee. :)
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It sounds to me like he actually turned onto the track, not crossing them, but down them. That could high center the car.
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Shame Darwin wasn't leading enough.
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You know The Office did an episode involving this where a character drove into a lake cause his navigation system told him to turn right.
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Originally posted by Blank
A maps only good if you know where you actually are ;)
...But a map and a GPS is a winning combo and does make travel so much more relaxing
I mean anyone who solely relies on a little computer to turn right and turn left blindly without total focus on the road and signposts, who doesn't actually check the route before setting off to see where they are headed to and towns on the way deserves to get lost...
Anyone with 100 IQ points and 2 eyes can easily figure out where they are on a map.
But the GPS people felt sorry for most of britain, so they made TomTom.
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Are you guys who are dissing GPS using electricity?
May I ask why? Is there something wrong using good old fire? Are you having cars? Something wrong with your horses?
Is there any hope people like you stop acting like idiots?
Couple years ago friend called me; she had problems in a city 200km away and which I don't know at all. I typed the address and GPS gave instructions, I drove thru the city like a native and picked her up.
Of course I could had stopped and buy a map, then read it for 10 minutes, stop, again read the map etc etc...
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
But the GPS people felt sorry for most of britain, so they made TomTom.
:D
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tomtom in my p-38:aok thats what ill do!
turn left ,next furball twenty miles ahead!
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[sarcasm/]Clearly he now has to sue the GPS manufacturer, rental car company, and the railroad company as it's their fault.[/sarcasm]
What a dumb***