Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:23:18 -0700
Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [WetWesties] GPS Can Be Hazardous To Your Vehicle
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I recall submitting a "rant" to a certain forum, in part about GPS.
Reason for rant:
It's a nice sunny day on the Stanley Park Causeway. The SPC is 3 lanes
going through Stanley Park in Vancouver B.C. Typically, the middle
lane alternates direction. If there's an F'up in that part of road,
everyone is "captive". Now where to run, no where to hide. Anyhow, I'm
heading home northbound. 1 lane open North bound, 2 lanes open south
bound. Suddenly I see this Dude pull a "U" turn from North bound to
South bound! And 2 point turn at that!
In part, I kindly (not!) indicated to him, that even if his GPS "told"
him to do this, maybe it was unwise!
Neil.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Only skightly off topic considering the number of us that use GPS based
> navigation systems in our Vanagons:
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> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004354292_webbuscrash17.html
> Tab through the pictures!!
> When the driver was asked "What happened?" he responded "I was just
> following the onboard GPS system". I guess that was after disconnecting
> brain. Maybe I'd better shut up now that I think of the time I almost drove
> into a low garage with the Bagawest carrier up top.....
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