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Friday January 4, 2008
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This is when technology can seriously go wrong. According to an MSNBC report, a computer consultant on Wednesday rented a car equipped with a GPS system. It advised the man to turn right. When he did so, he ended up on train tracks with a train headed right toward him!Fortunately, he escaped from the vehicle just in the nick of time, but the train, unable to stop, slammed into the car at 60 mph, Metro-North railroad spokesman Dan Brucker said Thursday. Consequently, the car was pushed more than 100 feet and approximately 500 passengers onboard were stranded for more than 2 hours while the damage was cleaned up. It's reported that 250 feet of the track has been heavily damaged.
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January 4, 2008 12:26 PM
Does anyone honestly think that the technology is at fault for this incident? Since when did technology become a replacement for common sense? Sure, let's blame the navigation system for this accident, meanwhile the idiot that doesn't have any real-life experience gets off as the helpless victim of technology-gone-wrong because he doesn't have the balls to accept responsibility for his stupid mistake.
January 4, 2008 2:05 PM
Another example of how an idiot using technology is still just an idiot. Better yet, morons should be disallowed from owning some technology gadgets.
Let's see, GPS directs you to drive off a cliff, do you do it?
Now we'll see a splash screen on EVERY GPS explaining that COMMON SENSE should trump ALL directions from this device because REAL LIFE changes faster than we can update MAPS!
January 4, 2008 4:14 PM
::giggle:: Settle down folks! I don't think anyone seriously thinks the GPS is to blame here. Like PJS says, an idiot with technology is still an idiot. Until we have technology that can think and make decisions for you, this kind of thing will always happen. But then, do we really want that kind of technology?