Man Using GPS Drives in Front of Train

Started by thelakelander, January 03, 2008, 08:06:38 PM

Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

thelakelander

January 03, 2008, 08:06:38 PM
I don't know if you can blame this one on GPS.

QuoteBEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. - A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things - but apparently not when a train is coming. A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.

full article: http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/general/2008/01/03/ODD.GPS.Train.Crash/
"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali

gatorback

#1
January 03, 2008, 08:28:01 PM
I think the trains us GPS to keep from running into other trains.  Lots of accidents occur a crossing grades every year and it's the engineer who usually is killed.  That's why I go crazy whenever I see a car run a crossing grade.
'As a sinner I am truly conscious of having often offended my Creator and I beg him to forgive me, but as a Queen and Sovereign, I am aware of no fault or offence for which I have to render account to anyone here below.'   Mary, queen of Scots to her jailer, Sir Amyas Paulet; October 1586

second_pancake

#2
January 03, 2008, 08:45:07 PM
Omg, how wrong am I for laughing my butt off when I read this?  Anyone watch The Office?  This reminds me of the episode where the boss gets the rental car with the navigation system and the voice tells him to make the next right.  He makes an immediate right despite the fact that doing so would make him drive directly into a lake.  His passenger keeps telling him, "No, the NEXT right!  You're going to drive into the lake!"  But he insists the system can't be wrong.  Well, of course they drive directly into the lake nearly drowning and the boss blames it on the navigation system, lol.  Dumb@$$.
"What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially."

Jason

#3
January 04, 2008, 08:26:59 AM
I saw that episode!

Sounds like this guy is looking for a frivilous lawsuit to make a quick 20 billion on....
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions