доверяй, но проверяй (Doveryay, no proveryay) Trust your GPS, but verify.

[marylander1940]

An Ontario woman blindly followed her car’s GPS straight into Lake Huron. While it sank, she swam to shore

 

TOBERMORY, Ont. — Police say following the instructions from a GPS on a foggy night left an Ontario woman taking an unplanned swim in Lake Huron.

 

Ontario Provincial Police say the 23-year-old woman from Kitchener, Ont., was following a route on her car’s GPS while driving in the dark on Thursday night in Tobermory, Ont.

 

They say she made a turn that took her straight into Little Tub Harbour on the shores of Lake Huron, where her car sank about 30 metres from shore.

 

Police say the woman was able to roll down the window and swim to safety in frigid water temperatures of 4 C.

They say she did not suffer any injuries.

 

OPP say they were able to tow the car out of the water early Friday morning.

 

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/an-ontario-woman-blindly-followed-her-gps-straight-into-lake-huron-while-her-car-sank-she-swam-to-shore

[rvwnsd]

I attribute many dumb driving moves to GPS. When GPS says "turn right" they turn right! So what if they are in the left lane and are alongside a harbor?

 

My friend is right: we should call it "uncommon sense" because so few people have/use it.

[+ quoththeraven]

This is why I wouldn't use GPS when driving. I would find the cognitive dissonance between a disembodied voice giving me incorrect information and the view outside too much to handle.

[rvwnsd]

I still think about the guy who drove several kilometers out of his way in Finland. If the hotel was supposed to be five kilometers away, wouldn't you start wondering when an hour later you were still driving?

[marylander1940]

This is why I wouldn't use GPS when driving. I would find the cognitive dissonance between a disembodied voice giving me incorrect information and the view outside too much to handle.

 

I still think about the guy who drove several kilometers out of his way in Finland. If the hotel was supposed to be five kilometers away, wouldn't you start wondering when an hour later you were still driving?

 

[klifhangar]

Years ago I trusted printed directions from mapquest trying to get to Marlborough Mass and ended up in New Hampshire in the middle of the night.

[bigvalboy]

If someone drives down a boat ramp right into the water using GPS, it might be time to thin the herd.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qDdnwPOuokU/TxNMk4iUxFI/AAAAAAAAAoI/HyLL3sHS4jg/s200/clint-eastwood-disgusted-gif.gif

[rvwnsd]

Years ago I trusted printed directions from mapquest trying to get to Marlborough Mass and ended up in New Hampshire in the middle of the night.

 

I moved into a house behind another house just as a new freeway opened a few blocks away. The freeway ran where a street was and a replacement street, with the same name as the one that became a freeway, was built alongside the freeway. Mapquest would routinely mess up and send people to my address on the wrong street. The house on the wrong street was almost identical to the house in front of mine, but that street was SCARY. Can't tell you how many friends would call me asking for directions.

 

If someone drives down a boat ramp right into the water using GPS, it might be time to thin the herd.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qDdnwPOuokU/TxNMk4iUxFI/AAAAAAAAAoI/HyLL3sHS4jg/s200/clint-eastwood-disgusted-gif.gif

 

That's why we call it a self-cleaning gene pool, sweetie pie.

[marylander1940]

If someone drives down a boat ramp right into the water using GPS, it might be time to thin the herd.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qDdnwPOuokU/TxNMk4iUxFI/AAAAAAAAAoI/HyLL3sHS4jg/s200/clint-eastwood-disgusted-gif.gif

 

hopefully natural selection will do it.

 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/53ba6cac5068aaaa302924ea2a66d8c6/tumblr_mxi1nplwJS1skvvw7o1_500.gif

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0JojWH1rQ

[+ deej]

I often use a GPS when driving. It's useful for keeping your bearings.

 

I can tell you this, though, I will not be driving into a lake no matter what a damn computer tells me to do.

[marylander1940]

I often use a GPS when driving. It's useful for keeping your bearings.

 

I can tell you this, though, I will not be driving into a lake no matter what a damn computer tells me to do.

 

Exactly, if you're close to a lake, river, cliff... take a peek to see what's outside.

 

As I've said in the tittle.

 

http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-i-did-say-something-in-our-negotiations-in-iceland-in-russian-dovorey-no-provorey-that-means-ronald-reagan-309699.jpg

[luvshairyguys]

Living near the Canadian border and spending a lot of time in Canada, I am beginning to worry about our friends to the north. Just this week the news carried a story of a Canadian man who felt sorry for a "cold" bison calf in Yellowstone Park and put it in the back of his SVU. The poor animal had to be put down since it wouldn't rejoin the other bisons. And then the local Seattle paper recalled how in 2010 another Canadian felt sorry for a lonely seal pup on the beach and "rescued " it. Luckily, after 3 months in a shelter it was successful in being reintroduced to the wild.

[+ sync]

I feel terrible about how hard I laughed at the Ontario woman's GPS experience. It's the verbiage.

[rvwnsd]

Living near the Canadian border and spending a lot of time in Canada, I am beginning to worry about our friends to the north. Just this week the news carried a story of a Canadian man who felt sorry for a "cold" bison calf in Yellowstone Park and put it in the back of his SVU. The poor animal had to be put down since it wouldn't rejoin the other bisons. And then the local Seattle paper recalled how in 2010 another Canadian felt sorry for a lonely seal pup on the beach and "rescued " it. Luckily, after 3 months in a shelter it was successful in being reintroduced to the wild.

I don't think Canadians have the monopoly on doing stupid stuff.

[gallahadesquire]

I still think about the guy who drove several kilometers out of his way in Finland. If the hotel was supposed to be five kilometers away, wouldn't you start wondering when an hour later you were still driving?

 

Had a car like that myself, once.

[gallahadesquire]

Years ago I trusted printed directions from mapquest trying to get to Marlborough Mass and ended up in New Hampshire in the middle of the night.

 

Ah yup - ya can't git theah from heah.

[Guest]

This is why I wouldn't use GPS when driving.

 

So you would only use the GPS when staying at home? Or walking?

[marylander1940]

Living near the Canadian border and spending a lot of time in Canada, I am beginning to worry about our friends to the north. Just this week the news carried a story of a Canadian man who felt sorry for a "cold" bison calf in Yellowstone Park and put it in the back of his SVU. The poor animal had to be put down since it wouldn't rejoin the other bisons. And then the local Seattle paper recalled how in 2010 another Canadian felt sorry for a lonely seal pup on the beach and "rescued " it. Luckily, after 3 months in a shelter it was successful in being reintroduced to the wild.

 

I'm sure folks in our country by percentage do crazier things like... voting for Trump.

[+ quoththeraven]

So you would only use the GPS when staying at home? Or walking?

 

Walking.

[Nvr2Thick]

About four years ago my Tom Tom GPS couldn't provide directions northbound onto the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Well, it eventually got me there, but it took me 45 miles out of my way on roads with lots of traffic lights.

 

These days I've become very reliant on the Waze app on my phone. On a trip last summer I thought that it had gone crazy because it instructed me to take an exit onto a rural highway off of a 450 mile stretch of major interstate. I ignored the directive and ended up in a two-hour traffic jam. On the way home I got a similar instruction and I followed it. I ended up on a series of 45-55 MPH back roads, one of which eventually paralleled the interstate I had left. The interstate was bumper to bumper and at a dead stop. Who knows how many hours I saved. Waze has provided me with similar detour saves on my 15 mile commute.