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Old 06-15-2011, 04:10 PM
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Women trust GPS, drive Mercedes into slough

Wow, I thought this only really happened on The Office...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015325599_slough16m.html

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Old 06-15-2011, 06:19 PM
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The women, from Mexico, told police they had been following the device about midnight but obviously took a wrong turn.

The three, who primarily speak Spanish and needed an interpreter to explain to police what happened
Did the GPS tell them to do that or did they turn on their own?
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I hope they bought the good insurance.
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Old 06-15-2011, 06:49 PM
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Did the GPS tell them to do that or did they turn on their own?
"Women Drive SUV Equipped With GPS Into Slough" is just not as enticing a headline.

I think you're probably right, though.

But, nevertheless, who drives into a slough?
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Old 06-15-2011, 06:59 PM
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"Women Drive SUV Equipped With GPS Into Slough" is just not as enticing a headline.

I think you're probably right, though.

But, nevertheless, who drives into a slough?
Probably so. Still, when things go wrong, it is very convenient to blame the machine. We had people blame the machine for their wrong input too.
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Old 06-15-2011, 09:17 PM
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Its called death by GPS, happens in the marine world somewhat often.

People forget that charts can be wrong, heck in some parts of the country/world they are still using British Admiralty charts from the 18th century. Those are just scanned into the chips; so the 300 year old British charts may not show oh a jetty was the built in the 30's. So your latest model Raymarine chart plotter will plot you right over it.
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Old 06-16-2011, 06:29 AM
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What's a "slough?"
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What's a "slough?"
From the pictures, looks to be another word for "swamp".
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Old 06-16-2011, 10:51 AM
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Its called death by GPS, happens in the marine world somewhat often.

People forget that charts can be wrong, heck in some parts of the country/world they are still using British Admiralty charts from the 18th century. Those are just scanned into the chips; so the 300 year old British charts may not show oh a jetty was the built in the 30's. So your latest model Raymarine chart plotter will plot you right over it.
Most clowns on the water have no idea how to use a chart, compass and stopwatch for navigation. Although I thought it was ridiculous at the time, I'm glad my father "forced" me to learn to navigate that way. He's been all up and down the east coast with those 3 items (plus ears to listen for buoy bells/whistles/horns/lighthouse signals) in all conditions including 10' visibility fog (I was "lucky" enough to be put on bow watch in those condition with the airhorn going off every minute in my ear ).

Even after he got Loran then GPS and radar, he'd plot every trip on the chart first and use the electronics strictly as a tracking aid. Lots of folks used to give him grief about being anal retentive. Those same folks were often seen veering off the correct course because their white boxes told them to only to perform major corrections once they realized things didn't look right, which was when they realized my father wasn't following them.
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A similar thing happened years ago when GPS was new. A guy was following the road via GPS and drove into a river 'cause the GPS didn't tell him to stop and wait for the ferry. Was in Germany, I think.
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Have a friend who works at Costco. Asks her what was going on. She stated that they were managers in training. Seemed to think that explained it all.
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'Ave I already told this one..?

Authorities (Who used to be the LifeBoat Service) cite an "Incident" in which
a Yacht Owner was found to be on the Stern Deck,enjoying Cocktails with
his Supercargo.
Whilst the Autopilot/GPS/Radar was in Command of the Vessel which was Underway in the ICW.

True Story

'Wanna guess how may tickets were written?
AND whether the Owner was cited for BWI?
AND/OR the GPS lost it's certification?

The Guys @ Sea Tow were laughing so hard,one of them fell overboard while
he was hooking up the Towline.
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Authorities (Who used to be the LifeBoat Service) cite an "Incident" in which
a Yacht Owner was found to be on the Stern Deck,enjoying Cocktails with
his Supercargo.
Whilst the Autopilot/GPS/Radar was in Command of the Vessel which was Underway in the ICW.

True Story

'Wanna guess how may tickets were written?
AND whether the Owner was cited for BWI?
AND/OR the GPS lost it's certification?

The Guys @ Sea Tow were laughing so hard,one of them fell overboard while
he was hooking up the Towline.
If you can afford the yacht and the "supercargo" you can afford to hire a captain. Someone experienced a stunning failure of judgement.

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