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/ (http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/general/2008/01/03/ODD.GPS.Train.Crash/)
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.
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@$$.
I saw that episode!
Sounds like this guy is looking for a frivilous lawsuit to make a quick 20 billion on....