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French motorway crash after GPS orders U-turn
Not a France bashing post...just a reminder that reliance on technology has its limits...especially when you're 78 years old.An elderly motorist driving along a 130-kilometre (80-mile) an hour motorway in eastern France caused an accident when he followed the advice of his onboard GPS computer - and made a U-turn to drive into the high-speed traffic. The man told officers his car GPS had [verbally] told him to "make a U-turn immediately" as he drove along lost on the express way near the town of Nancy in search of a hotel. "It's not the first time we've had a GPS incident," one of the officers said, recalling the time a police vehicle found itself face-to-face with a motorist going the wrong way in accordance with his computer's instructions. Posted by: Seafarious 2004-12-01 |
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