Well, this one has got listed by the BBC as another satnav idiocy, but it’s not really. A Redditch student (I’m reliably informed that those two words tell you all you need to know) comes accross a manual, unattended level crossing, and parks her car on the railway tracks, only to see it get smashed into by a train.
BBC
Western Telegraph
The crossing (though viewed from the opposite side).
Her boyfriend Tom Finucane
was appalled by the incident, and is planning to campaign to get the crossing changed.
I’ve got a simpler one Tom.
Try telling her to Read the highway code, and perhaps think?
Rule 269 handily suggests:
# open the gates or barriers on both sides of the crossing
# check that the green light is still on and cross quickly
# close the gates or barriers when you are clear of the crossing.
The only bearing the satnav has on this is that it directed her down a little-used minor road, but other fucktards are saying:
Will a complaint be made to the designers/suppliers of the sat nav system. For it is a failure of that which ultimately lead to Paula driving down a lane, and across a railway – the location of she was unaware of.
Oh For Fucks Sake. The long strips of shiny metal glinting in the headlights didn’t give it away? Or the signs?
One comment actually has the good sense to observe:
If people do not know the Highway Code, how is that the fault of the railway system?
Another example of ‘someone does something stupid, so we must change the rules to accomodate thick people’.
Thanks SM, I’ve been trying to defend the sat-nav on another forum from the gullible with less processing power than my own Garmin C310.
Can I do a rude swear?
Fucking stupid cunting thick idiotic cow.
Thanks.
Stu, that’s brilliant. Do it more often.
The thing is, I *don’t like* satnav in cars: I don’t like unnecesary toys and tech- tech for tech’s sake if you will. A GPSr without navigational instructions is a great tool when walking, and for some people, a satnav is a great tool when driving (couriers, for example), but it’s just that: a tool. Like a map.
Having said that I don’t like them, I’ll reinforce my point. Satnav has NOTHING TO DO with what this dumb bint did. It’s like blaming the internet for child p0rn.
Oh, they do.
I used to get frustrated when driving abroad, picking up the map constantly either while driving or having to stop and read it. And at night it is even more grief.
And now I have to use glasses to read there is the added hassle of having to find those before I can see the map properly 🙂
Believe me, a sat-nav has improved the quality of life for me while driving on the wrong side of the road.
A thousand miles in a day driving through a few different countries and not having to look at a map once.
Sorry, but I wouldn’t be without one now.
I personally don’t like them, and I get tired of people watching them instead of the road on the same commute they do every day, but soem people find them very useful. If you can excercise common sense while using one, then I’m sure they can be good. Your situation above is one where they make sense.
I agree that the people that use them for the same journey everyday need putting up a wall and filling with lead.
When you’re 200 miles from home in a densly populated town in rush hour trying to find some obscure address (and a place to park) with a deadline….they are far safer to look at/listen to than constant reference to an A-Z (if you’ve got one for Sheffield/Glasgow/Manchester/Leeds) and they save on having 20 books in the boot or constant reference to google maps. And they account for the fuckwits that can’t take simple direction by correcting routes.
As for the daft bint on the crossing, she fucking deserved it…one less twat on the road.
I think really I’m just reacting to the dullards that use them when they aren’t required, or helpful, and people that buy them just so they can say they’ve got one. Like I said, they can be a useful tool, and *used with common sense* make sense for some people. I think that only accounts for half of them though.
LMAO 😀
Thank god she was using satnav I say …
… otherwise, she’d have crashed into the gate whilst having the A-Z/map propped against the windscreen trying to work out why there wasn’t a sign on the road saying goto page 38 like the book said and knackered up the crossing for more coherant folks.
As for satnav in itself. Yep. brilliant for trying to find somewhere new for the first time without havign to rely on incorrect printed route planners & the GF’s dodgy map reading.
Yep, satnav gets it wrong some of the time but it still helps when you get sent down some wrong side roads trying to avoid the Chelsea Tractors swerving on the school runs.