Motorists switch satnav on, brain off

Iria · Dec 23, 2006, 03:17 AM

Source: Reuters
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BERLIN, Dec 22 (Reuters Life!) - Motorists who seem to turn off their brain when switching on their car's satellite navigation system have had a number of spectacular crashes in the past year -- but occasionally they're right to blame the machine.

Drivers obeying directions given by a sultry satnav voice have crashed into rivers, construction sites and roadside toilets in Germany, and had similar accidents in Britain.

BlueMak · Dec 23, 2006, 03:49 AM

I can't see how a driver will rather blindly follow the directions of such a system instead of relying on his/her own eyes and brain.

Iria · Dec 23, 2006, 03:58 AM

I don't have one of these, but my friend says his "boots" up saying "use reality" in addition to the directions (or some such wording).

Dec 23, 2006, 03:17 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Motorists switch satnav on, brain off Source: Reuters __________ BERLIN, Dec 22 (Reuters Life!) - Motorists who seem to turn off their brain when switching on their car's satellite navigation system have had a number of spectacular crashes in the past year -- but occasionally they're right to blame the machine. Drivers obeying directions given by a sultry satnav voice have crashed into rivers, construction sites and roadside toilets in Germany, and had similar accidents in Britain.

Dec 23, 2006, 03:49 AM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,475 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I can't see how a driver will rather blindly follow the directions of such a system instead of relying on his/her own eyes and brain. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Dec 23, 2006, 03:58 AM	Thread Starter #3
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	I don't have one of these, but my friend says his "boots" up saying "use reality" in addition to the directions (or some such wording).