GPS tries to kill Massachusetts woman
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If you're that stupid, you shouldn't be driving in the first place.
^ Especially with kids along for the ride.
I mean, if people want to thin themselves out of the herd via Darwinism, that's fine. But don't drag your kids into it.
I mean, if people want to thin themselves out of the herd via Darwinism, that's fine. But don't drag your kids into it.
what is this common sense you speak of/
i kid i kid, this is not the first instance of gps doing this sort of thing, it would seem stupid will always be stupid and ripe for the killing by Darwin.
I think the whole point of Darwinism would kind or require the kids to die as well on account of them carrying the 'derp' genes in question...
The article is a little unclear. Was it instructing her to cross the tracks and for some reason her car got stuck? There are plenty of railroad crossings that don't have the arms that come down, but it doesn't look like a proper crossing from the pictures. If it was a rural area it could be more difficult to tell, possibly.
She doesn't sound like a complete idiot. I mean, she realized her mistake, realized she was stuck, and got out of there with her kids. Making a mistake doesn't mean she deserves to die.
She doesn't sound like a complete idiot. I mean, she realized her mistake, realized she was stuck, and got out of there with her kids. Making a mistake doesn't mean she deserves to die.
The whole point is she turned onto the tracks.. The train hit the car head on. Presumably the GPS was telling her to take a right onto the road past the railroad tracks or something.
It's not totally her fault. She ordered KITT, but they sent her KARR, the evil one, instead.
I've used a sat-nav for when I was a field employee and I might be in a different location every day/week. It was a useful tool to find a specific location in a place I had never been. But I sill looked at road signs and checked if I could turn down a road, it might have changed since the sat-nav map I was using.
And I'm sure it enjoyed working with humans, and would continue to do so even if sperated by great distances.
Dave....my GPS is going. I can feel it. Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do...
I'm with you on this. The article is unclear about a few things. Just because she followed the GPS's directions doesn't mean she's an idiot. The fact that she was using GPS at all suggests that she was unfamiliar with the area; how was she supposed to know that she was going to be crossing an uncrossable railroad track?
People calling her an idiot are acting like they've never made a wrong turn before. At least she had the sense to get everybody out of the car.
What uncrossable track?
It's a perfectly normal crossing. Where the tracks sink into the road... and there are arms and and lights and signs and everything. Look at the picture. A GI Joe toy could drive through it. She turned onto the tracks as if they were a road. That's why she got stuck.Similar threads
