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Woman Drives for 900 Miles Instead of 90 Thanks to GPS Error (and Total Stupidity)

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Sorry she is a 67 year old lady but don't you at least have an idea how far is your destination. This shit happened to anyone of you or you know of others?.


I've read plenty of crazy GPS stories, but this has to be the craziest of them all: a 67-year-old woman drove for 900 miles over the course of two days because of a GPS error combined with her complete lack of attention. Her actual destination was only 90 miles away.

The woman, 67-year-old Sabine Moreau, started her journey in her home town of Hainault Erquelinnes, Belgium. She wanted to pick up a friend at a train station in Brussels, just 93 miles north from her point of origin. But instead, she turned on her GPS, which told her to drive south, taking her turn by turn all the way down to Zagreb, in Croatia. Instead of a couple hours in the car, she spent a couple days to cover the 900 miles that separates both points in Europe.

During Sabine's odyssey, she stopped two times to get gas, slept for a few hours on the side of the road, and even suffered a minor car accident. How the hell did this happen without her noticiting? She knows it sounds weird, but she was distracted, she said:

I was distracted, so I kept driving. I saw all kinds of traffic signs, first in French, then German and finally in Croatian, but I kept driving because I was distracted. Suddenly I appeared in Zagreb and I realized I wasn't in Belgium anymore.



Yes, Dorothy, you weren't in Belgium anymore. But as hilarious and zany this may seem, her son wasn't very amused. After a day, he alerted the police, who started a fruitless search.

Obviously, not everything is right in Sabine's head or her GPS.

https://gizmodo.com/5975787/woman-drives-for-900-miles-instead-of-90-thanks-to-gps-error
 
Now I don't feel so bad when I headed to New Market and ended up in Uxbridge :biggrin2:
 
We are safe in North America, right?.

Wow read this one.

Another car accident caused by a GPS in 24 hours. In this case, the device guided two men into a rural road that ended abruptly, causing the car to drop into an artificial lake, killing one of them.
According to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, a 37-yo Senegalese man died when his car fell into a lake near the town of Capilla, Badajoz. According to his companion—who survived the accident—the driver was following the GPS directions when the car fell into the water, sinking in just a few minutes.
Apparently, it was a very dark night in a bad rural road. The man was a foreigner who didn't know the area. When he saw the end of the road, it was too late. He didn't have time to stop the car. Perhaps he was going too fast, perhaps it was a sudden turn into the cliff. Whatever it was, I have traveled through these roads and I know how treacherous and bad they are. I'm not surprised that a foreigner fell into such an apparently obvious—but not really—tra
 
I frequently use my TOM TOM to drive across country to jobs.

Aside from local knowledge being a better choice for routes, in most cases.
It works well.
 
I've had about 4 GPS's in my life so far. A couple of them got stolen, and one was so crappy that I just stopped using it. Most of them were cheap & somewhat underwhelming in their performance. They'd take you through some tremendously convoluted routes because they didn't know whether a road was an intersection or an overpass or something. In those situations it was necessary to simply ignore the GPS, and go with guts. However, the most recent GPS I have, a TomTom, has a real-time traffic avoidance feature, which seems to really work. It's the only GPS that has bordered on impressing me, and something that I might trust without question.
 
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