Satellite Navigation
Do you remember when you were a little kid and you blamed your actions on your little brother Rhys? And remember how mum use to say to you, “If Rhys said to jump off a cliff would you do it?”. And remember how you always use to hang your head and say no, but said yes in your mind, just to spite her?
It would be interesting to know what the German motorist who drove his car off the edge of a busy road and onto a train line because his satnav told him to, was thinking. Did he remember his mother and think that now would be a great time to show her up? Or was he just not really thinking? According to the article he had to drive up over the curb and then onto the train line, before he realised his error and tried to reverse his car back away. A lot of thought must have gone into that little beauty.
Reuters writes that “Several German motorists have crashed their cars in recent months, later telling police they were only obeying orders from their satnavs”. What is the world coming to?
This isn’t the first time that people have mindlessly followed the advice of their satellite navigation systems. On April 20, 2006 The Times Online reported that farmers in a town in Luckington were making their money fishing people out of the river that they would unsuspectingly drive into. How do you drive into a RIVER? They are large and wet.
Hopefully, to the average person, running off the side of the road and onto railway tracks because you were told to, is a strange and abnormal action. Unfortunately the planet Earth holds many more stupider people than yourself, and it’s a nice thought to think that God put them here for you to have a laugh at, shake your head at, and learn that you should never do that yourself.
