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GPS mishap.....

j williams

j williams

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Just read an interesting story.....

A GPS unit sent a couple down a remote road, getting them lost and stranded for 3 days in the snow....I guess the couple was prepared enough with supplies, that they made it ok.. Eventually their cars Nav system got a weak signal and alerted a dispatcher to their exact location...

So their GPS, screwed em, and saved em...crazy. Problem is, the shortest route isnt always the best route... Something to keep in mind.

Heres a link to the story....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_stranded_motorists

Which makes me wanna remind everyone to make sure their cars are stocked with winter essentials....:thumbup:
 
personally i hate in car GPS , i find it annoying. and the one i had took you the LONGEST route possible in the city
 
I hear ya....Nothing beats a Map IMO.

We have GPS in our ambulances, and I dont use them. However, ALOT of folks use them nowadays so this will probably happen again.

A GPS that has a phone signal capability? Im guessin they mean Onstar?? Or maybe a Blackberry type GPS...
 
I once had a GPS telling me to drive off a 20 foot embankment. Also had a girl in the car nagging about how men couldn't follow directions... Was very conflicting.
 
back when i was driving garbage truck, a car in front of me suddenly turned right. right into a river off a bridge. Bunch of us retrieved the driver and passenger, who kept saying "TOMTOM say turn right"

one has to be very dimwitted, stupid, a complete sheep to listen to a GPS and follow the directions to the letter. Sadly we cannot breed out or exterminate those with the stupid gene.
 
Woo woo ... TOMTOM say turn wrong :rolleyes: Enough sheep follow TOMTOM off bridge we breed out stupid some day! :D
 
In October a group of three backpackers in Kings Canyon NP got into trouble by taking their GPS too literally. They were heading north along Roaring River, and their GPS showed that if they just followed the Roaring River drainage down to Roads End in the bottom of the Canyon, it would be only four miles instead of going ten miles over a high pass to get back to Road's End. They either didn't have a good map or they didn't look at it, because the drainage cliffs out just above the canyon floor, and they got stranded on a ledge just before the first winter storm of the year rolled through. They spent a couple days there before being rescued by helicopter. And they were cold and out of food, and one of them had lost his pack during a stream crossing.
 
I don't find many issues with GPSs being wrong or at fault, usually I find fault with the owners.
Like truck drivers in the UK getting their trucks stuck in narrow lanes and blaming the gps. Its not the gps fault its the drivers fault.
It like blaming a map because you couldn't read it or didn't know about magnetic declination.
If you have it know how to use it
 
Good call. I have water, two MREs and a wool surplus blanket in the trunk of each car, among other items.
 
Bushman5 said:
back when i was driving garbage truck, a car in front of me suddenly turned right. right into a river off a bridge. Bunch of us retrieved the driver and passenger, who kept saying "TOMTOM say turn right"

one has to be very dimwitted, stupid, a complete sheep to listen to a GPS and follow the directions to the letter. Sadly we cannot breed out or exterminate those with the stupid gene.
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Well I'd say the moron that drove into the river made a pretty good try at eliminating himself from the gene pool.:rolleyes:
 
I have a friend who works for VDOT and I have heard him talk about tractor trailers getting stuck on mountain roads because the driver was following a GPS.
 
People have been doing stupid much longer than GPS - I have GPS on my phone, and I still bring a road atlas, and I still prepare for the worst when traveling in the winter. Came in handy during last week's "storm of the century". When my fiance and I heard that folks were being stranded on their way home for Xmas without food or water, she turned to me and said "we're all set on that front right sweetie?" to which I smiled and said "yes." Her response was "and that's one of the reason's I am marrying you!"
 
A GPS is a tool... it is up to the operator to use common sense when plotting a course.

I never trust automotive electronics.... the Honda CRV I drive once told me my door was "A JAR"... my common sense allowed me to quicky deduce that it was simply a "DOOR" that was kinda open. I can only imagine what would have happend if I had accepted the info I was given...

Be smart, like me is.

Rick
 
great post Rick....:D

It astonishes me how dependant folks are getting on electronics to do things for them, and throw common sense out the window. Sometimes Ill glance up at the Garmin on the windsheild of the ambulance, and it apppears im driving in some weird space time continium as there is no road, no nothing....Then I realize its off. :o

At least these folks had some winter provisions in their vehicle....Now if they had packed common sence in there next to the blanky....

be safe out there guys.....A sharp mind is better then a sharp knife any day of the week.
 
i think outside the city the gps routing occasionally might not be the best choice...the shortest route might be a mountain route and you may not want to do that...if i was driving in unknown territory (which for me is anywhere out of my home state) i would also want a paper map...

simple minded people are the ones who get lost because they don't use/have common sense...
 
In dense urban areas or well traveled highways, a GPS is fantastic.

When you get out of these areas, signals aren't always there for you.
 
Bushman5 said:
back when i was driving garbage truck, a car in front of me suddenly turned right. right into a river off a bridge. Bunch of us retrieved the driver and passenger, who kept saying "TOMTOM say turn right"

one has to be very dimwitted, stupid, a complete sheep to listen to a GPS and follow the directions to the letter. Sadly we cannot breed out or exterminate those with the stupid gene.
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!

Dumbness appears to be attached to some recessive gene -- just when you think it's been bred out, it keeps cropping up....
 
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