"At the next boulder, turn right off cliff"
Technology is
wonderful. Technology is also made or, in this case, programmed by people.Drivers using GPS navigation in the English village of Crackpot (killer name for a town, BTW) are often being guided by such devices to the top of a 30-metre (over 98 feet) cliff. The directional glitch forces drivers of everything from cars to buses to big trucks to turn around perilously close to the cliff's edge. Predictably, though, sometimes the vehicle gets stuck. Says Carol Porter, who farms in Crackpot, "When they get grounded on the small boulders, we're having to go up there in the tractor and pull them out."
[Source: Cape Times]
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Howard Kerr 9:29PM (4/07/2006)
Using Yahoo's map function to plan a trip from Memphis to my parents home in northeast Pa. it tells you to make an exit to get to their town in a spot where there is no exit. To get from Pa. Rt. 6 to Bridge St. requires you to hop a guardrail then drop about 20 feet to the pavement. I've often wondered how many other glitches these systems have.
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Jake 10:06PM (4/07/2006)
thats the problem with the matrix...
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Wintermute 11:57PM (4/07/2006)
There is no Matrix. It's all lies.
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the chad 12:14AM (4/08/2006)
That's only if you took the blue pill....
So anyway, I want a hi-res pic of that for my desktop! :-)
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Corey W. 9:23AM (4/08/2006)
On trips where we're unfamilar with the route, we also take a regular map.
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Ken 10:58AM (4/08/2006)
The big issue is a lot of these maps from Google and such are not locally reviewed, they just use 'dumb' data for them.
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Michael 4:13PM (4/08/2006)
http://www.snopes.com/computer/graphics/norway.jpg
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