Satellite Navigation a Real Crackpot! 230
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CowboyNeal
from the asking-for-directions dept.
from the asking-for-directions dept.
debest writes "What happens when your satellite navigation system in your car gives you bad advice on which road you should take? In Britain, these systems have been directing drivers down a road near the (aptly named) town of Crackpot that is strewn with boulders and has an unprotected 100ft dropoff on one side! The locals are worried someone's going to go off the edge."
They really have 2 options: (Score:5, Insightful)
2) Stabilize the slope above and install a guard rail.
Too obvious to be a solution (Score:5, Insightful)
take the American approach (Score:2, Insightful)
This is what happens when people rely too much on nifty gadgets and stop using basic skills like map reading. The map may sill take you down this road but from what I've seen people get all googlyeyed in front of any video display and lose basic reasoning skill, like that which would prompt somoene to fidgit with the GPS for a minute and find an alternate route as this one seems undrivable.
Hmmm... I wonder. (Score:3, Insightful)
Hey, what's that cliff doing in the middle of the roaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Re:They really have 2 options: (Score:2, Insightful)
Why would that be necessary? The people are only going there because their GPS device is telling them to. One of the nice things of GPS devices is that they recalculate your route when you deviate from it.
Now, if the problem was related to route planners instead of GPS, you'd have a point.