[Newsbot]

Title: Driver following GPS gets stuck in Ontario marsh
Category: Strange
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-10-06 19:00:59
Canadian

[martin14]

Garmin or Tom Tom ?

[PostFactum]

Modern technologies for adequate people, If you can't shiting, do not execute your ass.

[QBall]

I'm going to file this under "Thinning The Herd".

[martin14]

PostFactum PostFactum:

Modern technologies for adequate people, If you can't shiting, do not execute your ass.

I like that one PF !


Only problem Q, that one is still alive.. EMS shouldnt be so fast next time.

[2Cdo]

This is why I trust maps and compasses over GPS's.

[QBC]

OMG, if you can't tell the road is really that shitty or that there is now no road anymore, you don't need a GPS, you need to be permanently wearing a hockey helmet....

I said this about GPS's's a long time ago. All my hunting buddies were buying them when they first came out. You rely on that thing while out hunting or on the ATV and the battery dies and you have no extras, you are lost and where we often went, that ment you were in serious trouble. I won't buy one for that purpose, plotting good fishing spots in a lake maybe.... , but I still and always will just head off into the bush with an old fashioned compass and map.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

And in 2007, a GPS error proved expensive for one British woman, who drove her $200,000 Mercedes into a river while she was on her way to attend a baptism.

If you think about it, that wasn't an error.

[Choban]

People rely on these things too much, they are fine to get directions but you still have to pay attention to the friggin road dummy

[bootlegga]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

This is why I trust maps and compasses over GPS's.

Me too, GPS seems like just another expensive toy to me, while maps areeasier to read and cheaper.

[herbie]

If I take readings from my GPS unit and transpose them to Google Earth, I get locations five to seven miles off. Readings for my store turn out behind a mountain, in a swamp on Google Earth!
And the map thing? Sometimes they keep reprinting old maps without updating them. Years ago we were doing this backroad trip following a roadmap in the Kamloops area. We ended up following ruts to a field and ran into an old guy on his tractor. Road from Deadman creek to Bonaparte Lake? Why hell, he remembered pulling a couple jeeps out of the muck a few miles further along that supposed road around 1949 or 1950. It was still on the 1978 map....

[Lemmy]

I'm gonna come down on the other side of the GPS debate. Sure, they're not perfect and GPS navigation should always be accompanied by hard copy maps, good observation and common sense. But I don't think I'd be too far into exageration in saying "GPS has saved my marriage". My wife is the world's worst navigator. Of all the yelling matches we've had over 17 years of marriage, 99% have occurred in the front seats of the car...

...Then again, that GPS has pretty much put an end to the make-up sex in the backseat.

[martin14]

I have a Garmin, one of the best toys I ever bought.. especially over in this dump,
and the neighboring dumps.

Millions of roads to nowhere, signs only point to the next village,
never seen a straight road over here.

It finds my cemeteries, and shows me all kinds of neat places I would usually
never see.. navigating in Canada is too freaking easy.


It has tried to take me down a dirt road or two, granted.

So it can be a good tool, but it isnt something to just turn everything over to.

And Lemmy, you havent met my old lady for navigational experience ... She is the one who bought it !

[Chumley]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

This is why I trust maps and compasses over GPS's.

No kidding. People turn off thier brains when they turn on a computerized device.

[raydan]

300 foot cliff!!!

Oh well, if my GPS tells me that's the ways to go...