It’s bad enough when you get a map and directions on the internet and go in circles for an hour because it says to take a right when it was supposed to be a left, but seems like sat-nav isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
There was the bus driver whose sat-nav led him directly into a river. Even though he was driving into the water, he kept right on because his sat-nav told him that was the way to go. Now, there’s the poor woman in Bodfari, North Wales, who is afraid to sit in her livingroom because truck drivers keep smashing into it, but she says it’s not their fault.
All the truck drivers are just following the directions from their sat-nav, which tells them that the winding country lane on which Amanda Sandland lives is a shortcut. All in all, truckers following the sat-nav instructions have hit her house 15 times.
Taking a truck down a narrow country lane that is obviously too small for the vehicle or driving a bus into a river and keep going till you are half-submereged because some technological advice tells you to, makes you a shining example of a lack of common sense and highlights our society’s new slavish dependence on technology.
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