[Az-Geocaching] GPS Tells Motorist To Do U-Turn On Expressway...So He Does

[Bob Renner]

GPS Tells Motorist To Do U-Turn On Expressway...So He
Does

Nancy, France (AFP)
Nov 30, 2004

An elderly motorist driving along a 130-kilometre
(80-mile) an hour expressway in eastern France caused
an accident when he followed the advice of his onboard
GPS computer - and made a U-turn to drive into
the high-speed traffic.  Police said the hapless
78-year-old driver, who was not named, and the
occupants
of the vehicle he ran into escaped unharmed from the
collision late Sunday, but it could have been much
worse.

The man told officers his car GPS had told him to
"make a U-turn immediately" as he drove along lost on
the autoroute near the town of Nancy in search of a
hotel. He did so, not realising the limitations of his
satellite navigation device, which guides using verbal
directions. "It's not the first time we've had a GPS
incident," one of the officers said, recalling the
time a police vehicle found itself face-to-face with a
motorist going the wrong way in accordance with his
computer's instructions.




		
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