Blue Crab Boulevard

New Technology, Same Old Problem

An 80-year old German motorist obediently followed the directions his new in-car navigation system gave him. To the very letter. No matter what.

"The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site," a police spokeswoman told Reuters.

"His trip finally ended when he wound up crashing into a pile of sand," she added.

The driver and his wife escaped uninjured from the collision, which occurred on a motorway near Hamburg.

This illustrates that new technology can't solve all major problems. In this case, the age-old problem that has plagued wheeled transportation since the beginning of time is still operational. The nut behind the wheel is loose.

World news | Gaius Monday, 9 October , 2006

By Rick, Monday, 9 October , 2006 @ 6:29 pm

Kind of reminds of the guys who set the lat/long of the harbor into their gps. Unfortunately, the harbor was on the other side of the island. Or, the ones who set their waypoint for the exact lat/long of the channel marker. Whooops, crash, glug.

Rick