http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/ Engadget Comments for Another Brit puts complete faith in GPS system, nearly perishes http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
Then it should give them an electric shock to help them understand the message in the event that they can't read.]]>May 11th 2007 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
She was trying to cross the line in the dark when she heard a train horn, realised she was on the track, and the train smashed into the car."

and Luke: check the link, she's not blonde.]]>May 11th 2007 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
The other guy was German!]]>May 12th 2007 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
Let's just be glad that she is still alive, and let the lesson be learned.]]>May 11th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
Naturally the bogies are removed at slaughter. Serial numbers allow the bogies to be returned to the appropriate farm. Didn't you see that 'How it's made'?]]>May 13th 2007 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
... Seriously? It's obvious she knew it was a railroad track but just made a dumb choice for her own convenience. Don't lie. You're giving Brits a bad name.]]>May 11th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
We really ought to do something about these death traps, and sharpish.



]]>May 11th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 14th 2007 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
Dumb Girl + Car = Lethal

I feel bad for her though.. Might have been excited about marriage or suttin u never know what chicks think.. lol.. hope she'll be alright..]]>May 11th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/2. I think we all agree that this isn't a story about GPS.
B. Maybe this is why the British keep pushing for the Big Brother camera/GPS systems to monitor their countrymen. At least that way, they might have film of this incident for all of us to see.

*shrug*]]>May 11th 2007 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
And I must say that the authors here have equal poor sense for blamming the GPS. There's little to NO connection between the smashing of the car and the nav system.]]>May 11th 2007 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
this was nearly a darwin award, i'm partially dissapointed it isn't, because i am completly for the cleansing of the low intelligence gene pool.]]>May 11th 2007 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/Everywhere I go there is someone doing something stupid, on TV or on the road, it’s everywhere. The only ones who don’t know or could ever are the "Stupid" people. I know it’s not "politically correct" and many of you will be upset by my statement, but it will not change the truth of it all. (we all know that I.Q. is a rough measurement and not precise) but even if it gives you some general numbers to work with, we can see we have a long way to go before we evolve into something on the high percentage of "Intelligence".
90% of the people you meet on the street are genetically incapable to reason out the obvious, they keep trying to fit the square peg in the round hole and argue the fact that its suppose to work that way, to them it is a big challenge in which they employ theories that make them feel better, a false sense of superiority of discovering something without proof so as to make it seem like they are an intellectuals.
I know that that the main response is going to be that an IQ test does not really measure Intelligence?, but if you think about it, I.Q. testing gives you something to work with and as time goes by there will be better test to give more accurate results, no matter if you are educated or not, although for someone with a low I.Q. it definitely does not hurt to be "Educated".
My personal belief is that if we are to have any chance of surviving in this world we need to educate and somehow find a way to have us mere mortals to have "common sense" even if it’s by training through “Education.
I would think most if not all of our mistakes throughout history have been made out of sheer ignorance and stupidity or both, Our "Only" chance of survival is to train and educate and filter the evil ones from our human society, it is something we all have to do together, but that is almost an impossible challenge in itself considering all the different cultures, religions and languages, I could list an endless set of examples but hopefully you get what I am trying to say.
It’s the impossible task of joining together for the whole of humanity.
Hopefully we have the strength and ability to do just that.
We all have to figure out where we are on the Intelligence scale, and some soul searching as to our moral and ethical values is very much needed to make the right choices for our future together in that the majority can agree on to make life here on Earth, so that it can be rewarding in every aspect so to fulfill every avenue that we embark upon, Intellectually, Morally and from a financial point a positive return on our money invested.
Remember 90 out of 100 are not odds the few will gamble their life with. But I am more frightened that the 90 likely will!
You can't "Fix Stupid"
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Taxis in New York City, are set to have GPS installed. Gee, don't folks know how to get to where they're going?]]>May 12th 2007 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
If there really was a sign with these instructions (quote below), that's 90% of the problem. What a ridiculous way to handle railroad crossings. Let's see, this sign + dark + no idea there was a railroad = understandable mistake. In passing, here in Eastern Pennsylvania in the US, I come across disused railroad tracks often enough when riding my horse.

"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it
"I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through."]]>May 11th 2007 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 13th 2007 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 11th 2007 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 13th 2007 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 12th 2007 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
In the good old days we learnt how to read maps at school...yet it's amazing how many people can't even read simple road maps (let alone OS maps) any more!

Heh, perhaps I'm just a grumpy old curmudgeon! ;)]]>May 12th 2007 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
How stupid can you get.]]>May 12th 2007 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
Now look at the (large) picure of the crossing at:
http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/_images/db/42/91/LEVELCROSSING1.429125.full.jpg

Am I the only one that sees an almost comical abundance of signage, including a red/green light to warn of oncoming trains, plus step by step instructions.

By the way, the instructions specifically tell you to check the light, open BOTH gates, then check the light again before driving across. Plus there's a phone that lets you contact the signalman.

It seriously scares me that I have to share the roads with people so lacking in common sense.

]]>May 12th 2007 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
1. All GPS systems insist that there is no railway at that crossing, and that, in fact, my village doesn't exist.

2. On the night of the accident, it was torrential rain (ish).

3. The photo that choochoo linked to, was after the event, and the car had been going the other way (not quite as many signs from that direction).

4. If she'd been bothered to look at a map before travelling that night she would've realised that that was a ridiculous direction to travel to get her to ger boyfriends house.

Ok, those were points supporting the girl... here are some that aren't.

1. In the original article, no mention was made of her using a GPS (it seems to be an afterthought after a similar incident in England), and all the blame was placed on "lack of signage".

2. There are loads of signs, and ample lighting.

3. The original article stated that the boyfriend said he'd heard about accidents at the same crossing before: There is ABSOLUTELY NO RECORD anywhere about any other accidents at that crossing in at least 20 years, plus considering at some point our farm is about 2 yards away from the tracks, I'm sure we'd know if there had been.

4. She would have driven past the same track at least three times before making that stupid mistake, I should know, I drive past it all the time.

5. She wasn't blonde, she had no excuse. She was incredibly thick.


One final point to make: It happened about 4 months ago, don't make out as if it only just happened. ]]>May 13th 2007 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/May 14th 2007 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/11/another-brit-puts-complete-faith-in-gps-system-nearly-perishes/
She should be forced to re-take an extended driving test. It was good to hear that her next visit was by train though.

My worry is the p.c. lobby take onboard people blaming technology in these instances. Cue more nanny-state legislation.

And as for the Darwinism theory, I don't buy it - we seem to have more idiots walking the Earth now than ever before! You only have to look at the fact that we Brits elected Blair and the US elected Bush. Anyway, I digress.]]>May 25th 2007 8:54AM