[LINK] GPS directions take driver off-road

[Richard Chirgwin]

        Antony Barry wrote:
> GPS directions take driver off-road
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> A Melbourne woman was lost in Victoria's south-west for more than two 
> hours last night, after following her car's GPS instructions down a 
> rough dirt road.
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> Sergeant Wayne Oakes says the woman in her 20s was driving from 
> Melbourne to the coastal town of Peterborough, but got lost in 
> bushland just south of Cobden.
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> She called 000 at 7:30pm AEST to say she was lost and her car was 
> stuck on the road.
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> Sergeant Oakes says it took police two-and-a-half hours to find her.
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> "She followed it and it wasn't quite as accurate as she'd hoped and 
> she ended up well and truly off the beaten track onto ... literally a 
> four-wheel drive only road," he said.
>
> "I think she'd still be better off sticking to a road map and I think 
> she's likely to learn how to use it a little bit better."
...and, as remarked on another list, once you have bought one of these 
devices, you also have to keep paying for updates ...

RC
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