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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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I hope they bought the good insurance.
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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?
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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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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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What's a "slough?"
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From the pictures, looks to be another word for "swamp".
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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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"They said something about being in a jungle."
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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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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar. 83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles 08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles 88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress. |
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