...same as for air bags, ABS, etc - if people didn't drive around in big,
obnoxious SUV's & the like with feelings of omnipotence, there would be less
need for equipment to protect people from their own stupidity. If everyone
drove around in simpler, smaller vehicles (or LBC's) and paid more attention
to what they were doing than who they were trying to cel-phone, the roads
wouldn't have to resemble the bump-car ride at the fair.
My .02
JD
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete & Aprille Chadwell [SMTP:dynamic@transport.com]
Sent: February 24, 1999 10:22 AM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: GPS systems
Rick Steig wrote:
>POTSDAM, Germany (AP) A German couple out for a Christmas drive
ended up in
>a river, apparently because their luxury BMW
>computer forgot to mention that they had to wait for a ferry. The
>uninjured couple were driving late Friday nite when they came to a
ferry
>crossing at the Havel River in Caputh. That information was never
stored
>in the GPS-based navigation system which comes as an option in
their new
>car. The driver kept going straight in the dark, expecting a
bridge, and
>ended up in the river.
>(quoted in an article on "judgement" in GeoInfo Systems Magazine's
February
>issue.)
That's progress!!
Pete Chadwell
1973 TR6
|