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News: BBC News: Woman Blames Sat Nav for accident

As I’m in the process of slowing shutting down other sites I’ve worked on (due to time constraints), I’m reposting them here. Here’s an article from the 12th of May 2007 from “Treble R News” which was going to be a Register-esque general news site.

“A 20 year old students car was wrecked by a train after she followed her sat nav system onto a railway track”, BBC News South West reports.

The female student said “I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train…The crossing wasn’t shown on the sat nav, there were no signs at all and it wasn’t lit up to warn of an oncoming train.” – in other words, she was totally trusting her satellite navigation system and not actually looking at the road.

Next I think we’ll hear of people complaining that they knocked over pedestrians or hit cyclists because “they weren’t shown on the sat nav”!

See Also: Slashdot – Blame Your Mistakes on Technology

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