BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)

Subject: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 10:18 AM

The end of a GPS controlled trip (Don't try to read German, the photo says it all)

We had also had that man who steered (last Monday) his car down a staircase in Freiburg and did a 2100.- Euro damage. That he'll have also to pay a ticket of 35.- Euro seems rather irrelevant in the context.

The article: ...surely next time the driver might rely on another highly complex navigation help system, the eye.

If you hear a voice and nobody is actually there, don't trust that voice.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 10:46 AM

There is no amount of technology that can make up for being an idiot...

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Paul Burke
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 10:54 AM

I spend a lot of time trying to make systems idiot- proof. We have two problems: (1) the idiots who test them (us) don't think in the same way as the idiots who use them. (2) idiots are getting better (at being idiots) all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 11:34 AM

"But, it SAID 'turn left, right here'!"

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 01:09 PM

Wolfgang -

Actually, this is one of the first web pages I've seen for which the Google translator actually came up with something almost readable.

I ran it just out of curiosity.

It didn't make the driver look any smarter.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Don Firth
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 02:02 PM

I'm pretty low-tech, I guess. I have this thing they call a "map."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 02:07 PM

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:25 PM

"Nothing can ever be foolproof. Fools are too ingenious."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Greg F.
Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:45 PM

Hey, if you don't know how to read a map, the GPS isn't really going to be much help.

If they ban cell phone use while driving- as some of the smarter U.S. states have done, they ought to ban those "navigation" screens as well.
A drivers eyes are supposed to be on the road.

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Paul Burke
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:25 AM

It would be easier if they put signposts to where you want to go at road junctions. The ones they put up now are always for somebody else, and don't point to my destination.

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 07:42 AM

A Paul Burke Sign? (Skip the ads at the top of the page. Scroll down if necessary.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 04:48 AM

The Babelfish translation was a bit iffy.. (follows)

Drive ends in the middle in the station again a case for the slogan "confidence is good, to looking is better": Because a driver did not understand the data of his navigation system correctly, its travel ended roughly - on the rails of a station. Karlsruhe - an unusual sight was offered yesterday 1 of the Karlsruher Albtalbahnhofs to the waiting at track, when instead of the expected course a black BMW rolled over the rails. The 64-jaehrige driver brought its cars the inside one the station to a halt. Strip packing Caution with the entry: This rail-mounted vehicle did not stand on the timetable the man was wrongly bent, because it had misunderstood obviously the data of its government inspection department system. After driving through the paved rail range it continued its driving in the geschotterten range, where it came to some meters to a halt. On Monday a Freiburger driver had rammed stairs, because he had paid attention to the navigation equipment instead of on the road

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 01:24 PM

Huh.... won't have the thing anywhere near me. At least getting lost on my own account hasn't landed me in the sea or up a railway line...













yet..

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: autolycus
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 07:01 AM

Murphy's Law aka Sod's Law strikes.

Or as a Taoist might say,"Shit happens."

Or as the Jewish proverb has it,"We do not see the world as it is, but as we are."

So we know something about that driver,if we're interested.




    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 10:19 AM

Also (in UK) lorry drivers hitting low bridges because they're using a GPS intended for car drivers....

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 11:10 AM

reminds me of an old remark...

"If things don't start getting better, I may have to ask you to stop helping me."

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Grab
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 06:16 AM

Not the first one. There's another driver (German again) who drove off a pier because his satnav said there was a way across. Sadly the way across was a ferry... :-) IIRC there was an American woman as well who parked her car in a supermarket because it said there was a road there.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS)
From: Paul Burke
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 07:44 AM

He voss only obeyink orders.