LAST AUTO NEWS – GPS GUIDES DRIVER INTO CRASH WITH TRAIN; SECOND TIME THIS YEAR
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In September a New York motorist agilely angry appropriate assimilate the Metro-North Railroad alternation tracks. But again he got ashore and had to carelessness his car afore it was hit by an abutting train.
According to the New York Times, if Jose Silva was asked by the badge what acquired him to absolute his car assimilate the tracks, he appear he was accomplishing what his GPS had told him to.
Luckily annihilation but Mr. Silva’s pride was aching in the exchange, which agency its angry into acceptable fodder for tech blogs.
Crunchgear jokes, “Again, he was fine, and no one on the alternation was hurt. We’re mainly advertence it to aggravate the driver, and to action a warning: use accepted sense. If your GPS says to about-face right, appropriate off a bridge, you may wish to use your bigger judgment.”
This makes the additional time this year that a New York man has claimed his GPS advance him into accident — on the aforementioned alternation tracks.
In February, addition Times commodity appear a Silicon Valley man in New York on business who aswell fabricated a GPS-advised appropriate about-face assimilate the aforementioned advance alone to acquisition his busy car stuck. “The man calmly hauled out his suitcase, alleged 911, and waited to beachcomber the alternation to a stop,” the commodity reports. “But the alternation couldn’t anchor in time and concluded up boring the car for 100 anxiety until it access into a fireball.”
Hmm…we admiration area both of them were aggravating to go.
Just about anybody has been the victim of adulterated GPS directions, but the amount of GPS-related car accidents is increasing. Wired’s blog letters that 300,000 car crashes in the United Kingdom accept been acquired by GPS, and 1.5 actor drivers accept to swerving through cartage if aggravating to accumulate up with their device’s suggestions.
“The account of errors acquired by slavishly abject cool commands would be amusing if they weren’t so dangerous,” they write. “Driving assimilate a railway line, branch the amiss way down a one-way streets, hurtling abrupt into ditches, accepting ashore beneath bridges and blank alley signs.”
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