[Az-Geocaching] GPS Tells Motorist To Do U-Turn On Expressway...So He Does

[Bob Renner]

No, I heard about it at work.  I don't listen to the
hate monger rantings of Rush.

Bob
--- Brian Casteel <bcasteel at uccinc.net> wrote:

> I take it you heard about this on Rush?
> 
> Brian
> Team A.I.
> 
> > GPS Tells Motorist To Do U-Turn On Expressway...So
> He
> > Does
> >
> > Nancy, France (AFP)
> > Nov 30, 2004
> >
> > An elderly motorist driving along a 130-kilometre
> > (80-mile) an hour expressway in eastern France
> caused
> > an accident when he followed the advice of his
> onboard
> > GPS computer - and made a U-turn to drive into
> > the high-speed traffic.  Police said the hapless
> > 78-year-old driver, who was not named, and the
> > occupants
> > of the vehicle he ran into escaped unharmed from
> the
> > collision late Sunday, but it could have been much
> > worse.
> >
> > The man told officers his car GPS had told him to
> > "make a U-turn immediately" as he drove along lost
> on
> > the autoroute near the town of Nancy in search of
> a
> > hotel. He did so, not realising the limitations of
> his
> > satellite navigation device, which guides using
> verbal
> > directions. "It's not the first time we've had a
> GPS
> > incident," one of the officers said, recalling the
> > time a police vehicle found itself face-to-face
> with a
> > motorist going the wrong way in accordance with
> his
> > computer's instructions.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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