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The blind leading the blind......

A driver, stranded after he drove into a river, said his sat-nav system guided him in there.

The mini-bus driver was on his way to collect a fare in Castle Acre, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, when he took a wrong turn into the River Nar.

Pat Bowles, from Streamline Taxis, said: "Normal people would stop and back out but because his sat-nav told him to keep going that's what he did.

"I don't think he did think until he couldn't go any further."

The incident happened as the driver was following his sat-nav on Saturday.

Ms Bowles said it had given the driver's colleagues plenty of amusement: "He's had taxi drivers going into the office with snorkels on.

"We've also had phones calls, texts coming through asking if they can book river trips."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7362254.stm

I just cannot understand people who say, "well I drove three miles along the train tracks because my sat-nav told me to", or in this case in to a river. Sorry, what sort of retard leaves common sense at home and follows blindly a sat nav that is quite evidently wrong . It is only as smart as the person who programmed it. I have a factory fit BMW system. It told me to turn left when traveling over a 100 mph on the Autobahn. I just yanked that steering wheel over as hard as I could, barrel rolled the car down the road, clipping a few others, landed on the roof, climbed out and said, "but my sat nav told me to do it"..............NOT. It was more like, "shut up you dopey b#+tch and carried on as normal.
The scary thing it this guy is a mini bus driver, someone who has a duty of care to his passengers.
Some people are a waste of a perfectly good skin, using oxygen that an asmatic could better use.

Matt

i think his sat nav must have a message come up when you turn it on saying "before using this navigation equipment, please leave all common sense outside"

My car's GPS Navigation makes me 'agree' that I won't operate the unit while driving, every time I want to use it...

hmmm theres a river about 500 feet in front of me and im driving threw a forest, i cant be lost!

Aren't those instruments supposed to guide you? But anyways it is still funny.

Some people are a waste of a perfectly good skin, using oxygen that an asmatic could better use.

Well put, Matt!!

oh for pete's sake

it reminds me of the 'robot chicken' tv show episode when the GPS voice gets frisky and asks the driver out on a date, the confused driver explains that it would never work and turns the offer down.

The GPS guides him off a cliff. "We will die together... if i cant have you nobody can!" it says on the way down

and there are a lot of people out there who would follow it!

The blind leading the blind......

A driver, stranded after he drove into a river, said his sat-nav system guided him in there.

The mini-bus driver was on his way to collect a fare in Castle Acre, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, when he took a wrong turn into the River Nar.

Pat Bowles, from Streamline Taxis, said: "Normal people would stop and back out but because his sat-nav told him to keep going that's what he did.

"I don't think he did think until he couldn't go any further."

The incident happened as the driver was following his sat-nav on Saturday.

Ms Bowles said it had given the driver's colleagues plenty of amusement: "He's had taxi drivers going into the office with snorkels on.

"We've also had phones calls, texts coming through asking if they can book river trips."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7362254.stm

Ok Ok lemme guess, the sat-nav was made by Navman? Stay away from Navman! It is quite common for them to tell you to turn into a paddock or river TomTom all the way!! they are the best at sat-navs. I have one