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

[Brian Casteel]

I take it you heard about this on Rush?

Brian
Team A.I.

> 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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