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german sat nav accident
the loon:
taken from Yahoo news
BERLIN (Reuters) - An 80-year-old German motorist obediently following his navigation system ignored a motorway "closed for construction" sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road, police said on Monday.
"The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site," a police spokeswoman told Reuters.
"His trip finally ended when he wound up crashing into a pile of sand," she added.
The driver and his wife escaped uninjured from the collision, which occurred on a motorway near Hamburg.
:lol:
nice to see its not just in the UK that satnav's are leading people astray
Jimbo:
Yes - damn thing tried to send us up one of the 'Police only access' thingy ramps at the weekend..........we wanted to go northbound on the M11, and the ramp was the off-slip from the southbound :shock: , needless to say, I ignored the instructions, threw the sat-nav in the back and followed my nose (and the road signs !)
Jim
freeagent:
when we went to morocco in the summer a couple of the guys on our trip had Tom toms.... which got us lost in madrid, bilbao and most places between bilbao and algerciras... they were christened 'tomtom ghetto edition' because they always wanted to take us through burned out industrial estates and shanty towns.
Garmin however, didn't miss a beat, and was the only GPS to actually locate the correct port in bilbao......
the loon:
my tomtom did this to me last week
http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=30338&highlight=
:lol:
snezza69:
They are not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but with some common sense I would not be without mine.
In Germany there is a stretch of motorway that was never built yet all the German maps show it completed.
Not really Tom Tom's fault I think!
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