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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
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com>
Comments: cc: Wetwesties <Wetwesties@yahoogroups.com>
In-Reply-To:  <86476e250804170811t5cfb8bfat90bb5bc4a656058f@mail.gmail.com>
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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: > > > > > > > Only skightly off topic considering the number of us that use GPS based > navigation systems in our Vanagons: > > 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..... > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > __._,_.___ > Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic > Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Members | Calendar > > To leave us: wetwesties-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > For technical resources, goto: http://wetwesties.org/links.htm > > Please conserve bandwidth and clip quoted material in your posts. > Include only the information that is relevent to your response. > > > > Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) > Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format > to Traditional > Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe > > > > Recent Activity > > > 4 > New Members > > 2 > New Photos Visit Your Group > > > Y! Sports for TV > > Access it for free > > Get Fantasy Sports > > stats on your TV. > > Yahoo! Finance > > It's Now Personal > > Guides, news, > > advice & more. > > Sitebuilder > > Build a web site > > quickly & easily > > with Sitebuilder. > . > __,_._,___

-- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"

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