Why you shouldn't just blindly follow the Sat-Nav...

[tyred]

It might lead you down steps!

https://www.thenational.scot/news/2...ror-sending-cars-central-edinburgh-staircase/

 

[Profpointy]

My car is fitted can fitted with a glass window at the front so you can look where you are going. Maybe it was an optional extra for the car shown

 

[Emanresu]

And this one.

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/10/u...e-stuck-on-welsh-walking-trail-blame-the-gps/

Mind you, I've ended up in strange places on a bike following GPS as it is not always updated.

 

[Bazzer]

It might lead you down steps!

https://www.thenational.scot/news/2...ror-sending-cars-central-edinburgh-staircase/

One might have thought that the absence of dropped kerbs (potentially 2), and/or driving along a dedicated cycle lane, might have been a clue to the driver.

 

[Drago]

Kkeerrrist, some people really shouldn't have licences.

 

[presta]

Could have been worse:

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MPISH0EBfFs

 

[Profpointy]

One might have thought that the absence of dropped kerbs (potentially 2), and/or driving along a dedicated cycle lane, might have been a clue to the driver.

I'd have thought it being steps might have been an even bigger clue

 

[ColinJ]

Kkeerrrist, some people really shouldn't have licences.

Indeed!

I once encountered a motorist unable to do the last 30 metres of this steep, narrow, cobbled path in Hebden Bridge. He then had to reverse all the way back down...

Steps? STEPS? round here we YEARN for steps on our Sustrans routes!!!

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Cobbles averaging 23+% for over 300 m, with the initial ramp at 30+%!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

And this one.

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/10/u...e-stuck-on-welsh-walking-trail-blame-the-gps/

Mind you, I've ended up in strange places on a bike following GPS as it is not always updated.

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I'd bunny hop that and continue on my merry way.

 

[HLaB]

It might lead you down steps!

https://www.thenational.scot/news/2...ror-sending-cars-central-edinburgh-staircase/

They are slow in reporting that, it happened before Christmas!

 

[HLaB]

This one happened ages ago too; I cycled by it but the press photographer got a better photo.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/lorry-photos-longstanton-guided-busway-15801976

I guess the truck driver followed the tw@tnav, but you can see the lights of another car stuck behind and I suspect they followed the the trucks lights

 

[BoldonLad]

This one happened ages ago too; I cycled by it but the press photographer got a better photo.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/lorry-photos-longstanton-guided-busway-15801976
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I guess the truck driver followed the tw@tnav, but you can see the lights of another car stuck behind and I suspect they followed the the trucks lights

I will own up to a similar folly, about 20 years ago, but, not Sat-Nav related.

Driving a motorhome in rural Spain, I noticed what appeared to be a shortcut to my wife's carefully planned route, using a paper map.

I turned off the major road, following the "short cut".

The road was a bit narrow, but, passable with care.

My wife, predictably, expressed concern that we were not following her planned route.

We soon encountered a large HGV, ahead, travelling in the same direction as us.

This boosted my confidence that I had made a "good" choice, and, I ploughed on

Eventually, we came to the end of the tarmac, the large HGV was delivering construction materials for the, as yet unfinished, road

The Construction workers were good humoured about it and moved a few barriers so that we were able to drive on the as yet unfinished hardcore surface for about 10kilometers, until we encountered tarmac again

My "shortcut" was shorter, but, not quicker than my wife's planned route

My wife seldom reminds me of this incident, not more frequently than once per week approximately

 

[Andy in Germany]

One might have thought that the absence of dropped kerbs (potentially 2), and/or driving along a dedicated cycle lane, might have been a clue to the driver.

It makes me wonder how much they usually take any notice of pavements.

 

[Drago]

This one happened ages ago too; I cycled by it but the press photographer got a better photo.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/lorry-photos-longstanton-guided-busway-15801976
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I guess the truck driver followed the tw@tnav, but you can see the lights of another car stuck behind and I suspect they followed the the trucks lights

Holy Boris! Whwtmon earth were they thinking?

 

[biggs682]

Sat navs are for guidance only