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19 Oct 06 - 10:18 AM (#1863200) Subject: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Wolfgang 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 |
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19 Oct 06 - 10:46 AM (#1863224) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Bunnahabhain There is no amount of technology that can make up for being an idiot... |
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19 Oct 06 - 10:54 AM (#1863229) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Paul Burke 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. |
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19 Oct 06 - 11:34 AM (#1863264) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Bill D "But, it SAID 'turn left, right here'!" |
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19 Oct 06 - 01:09 PM (#1863383) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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19 Oct 06 - 02:02 PM (#1863434) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Don Firth I'm pretty low-tech, I guess. I have this thing they call a "map." Don Firth |
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19 Oct 06 - 02:07 PM (#1863439) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: BuckMulligan "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." |
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19 Oct 06 - 05:25 PM (#1863615) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Uncle_DaveO "Nothing can ever be foolproof. Fools are too ingenious." Dave Oesterreich |
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19 Oct 06 - 05:45 PM (#1863639) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Greg F. 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. |
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20 Oct 06 - 03:25 AM (#1863923) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Paul Burke 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. |
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20 Oct 06 - 07:42 AM (#1864060) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: JohnInKansas A Paul Burke Sign? (Skip the ads at the top of the page. Scroll down if necessary.) John |
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21 Oct 06 - 04:48 AM (#1864905) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Richard Bridge 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 |
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21 Oct 06 - 01:24 PM (#1865146) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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22 Oct 06 - 07:01 AM (#1865529) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: autolycus 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 |
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22 Oct 06 - 10:19 AM (#1865628) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Herga Kitty Also (in UK) lorry drivers hitting low bridges because they're using a GPS intended for car drivers.... Kitty |
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22 Oct 06 - 11:10 AM (#1865658) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Bill D reminds me of an old remark... "If things don't start getting better, I may have to ask you to stop helping me." |
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23 Oct 06 - 06:16 AM (#1866302) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Grab 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. |
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23 Oct 06 - 07:44 AM (#1866336) Subject: RE: BS: Trusting that voice you hear (GPS) From: Paul Burke He voss only obeyink orders. |