I’m beginning to think that GPS navigation systems in cars and trucks might actually be a menace to society. First, we have trucks dominating a residential street just because the GPS told them to.
However, this AP article takes GPS-influenced idiocy to a whole new level:
A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things - but apparently not when a train is coming. A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.
The driver had turned right, as the system advised, and the car somehow got stuck on the tracks at the crossing. He jumped out and tried to warn the engineer by waving. He got out of the way just before the train slammed into the car at 60 mph, Metro-North railroad spokesman Dan Brucker said Thursday.
