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mystery-ak:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-drives-900-miles-gps-error-181605523.html

Woman drives 900 miles out of her way after GPS error
By Mike Krumboltz | The Sideshow – 5 hrs ago

Put too much faith in technology and you may wind up in Croatia. A 67-year-old woman from Belgium learned that the hard way after she followed (faulty) directions from her GPS device.

The woman only wanted to go about 90 miles from her hometown of Hainault Erquelinnes, Belgium, to pick up a friend at the Brussels train station. Her GPS device sent her about 900 miles to the south before (during the second day of driving) she realized that something was amiss. It's unclear if she entered the address incorrectly or if the GPS was faulty.

Discovery explains that the driver, Sabine Moreau, stopped twice for gas, slept on the side of the road, and "even suffered a minor car accident" along the way. She told El Mundo that she wasn't paying attention.


--- Quote ---I was distracted, so I kept driving. I saw all kinds of traffic signs, first in French, then German and finally in Croatian, but I kept driving because I was distracted. Suddenly I appeared in Zagreb and I realized I wasn't in Belgium anymore.
--- End quote ---

The lesson here: If you start seeing road signs in (multiple) foreign languages, pull over. You're probably going the wrong way.

Rivergirl:
And I thought our Garmin led us astray.    After following the directions carefully and then hearing........

Arriving at destination on left..............

We just happened to notice that on our left was.......Hudson River.

truth_seeker:
A few weeks ago, my wife, her sister and their mother set off from Orange County to Flagstaff. I asked my wife if she had a map, but she replied--we don't need a map, we've driven this before, etc.

So during the day they were driving, I called to see how the journey was going. First call reveals they got a late start, but are progressing north on I15 through the Cajon pass.

Later I call, and they are worse off. They should have been arriving at Flagstaff or nearly so. But instead of turning east on I40 at Barstow towards Flagstaff, they proceeded north on I15 from Barstow towards Lost Wages. They went far enough before realizing the problem, that they stopped back in Barstow for the night.

I got a really big laugh, for I'm the deatail oriented planner and calculator. The intuitive ladies may, just may learn but I doubt it.

I don't think maps or a GPS would have helped, since they were oblivious to outside evidence.

Rapunzel:
How on earth did they miss the I-40 off ramp?  The sign is huge.

truth_seeker:

--- Quote from: Rapunzel on January 16, 2013, 12:38:21 am ---How on earth did they miss the I-40 off ramp?  The sign is huge.

--- End quote ---
As I said, they knew the way, had driven it before, etc. Probably yacking away, not a care in the world. Untill........

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