Honestly, would you trust your gps with your life?

Question

Did anyone read about how that r****d followed his gps' directions directly onto train tracks where a train was coming towards him? HOW the **** did he manage to pull that one off??? seriously? isnt there a point when you go.. "hmm, wait, my car cant drive on train tracks, that HAS to be wrong..."

yur thoughts? I'm looking for funny here :-P

Answer 1

If the nut doesn't know better than to turn onto the train track he shouldn't be allowed out without a nanny. I learned to read at 5 years of age, my father taught how to identify North, South, East and West and the Marines taught me map reading and navigation. I don't get lost but have helped out quite a few souls who blindly followed their GPS's until they were totally lost. If you don't know what you're doing or where you are electronics will not save your dumb @ss.

Answer 2

No, never!

My gps gets these little fits sometimes... it gets confused and just keeps "recalculating" even though I am travelling straight on the same road.

Once it told me to make a U-turn on the HIGHWAY, through a barrier. Obviously I ignored it.

Also, it took me way off between factories and storage buildings because it thought there was a Mcdonalds there. Yeah right.

If I trusted my gps with my life I would probably be a very dead person right now.

Answer 3

Whoever said they would sell their dog, needs to re-think that, I bet your dog has a better since of direction than that $500 GPS system you have.  

Well there are some pretty retarded people out there.  Lack of common sense is what causes that.

What ever happened to the days of knowing how to read a map.  I don't own a GPS, I use a map to plan my routes.  A lot cheaper than a GPS for one, and I never get lost, never go down the wrong road.  

Just simply use a map morons.  

I just love the commercials on tv about those stupid GPS systems.  Saying turn left now, turn right now, etc.  Plus that d**n GPS don't do you any good offroad.  Course this type of thing happens more often than people know.  There's something called common sense that should come into play but apparently knowone has any of that anymore, they just think that $1,000 piece of electronic equipment is 100% correct all the time.  

I once punched into Yahoo maps my home address and my cousin's home address and the yahoo map if I would have followed it would have sent me 130 miles in the wrong direction to catch the freeway to go the opposite direction, so don't follow those online maping sites either.  I just did that to see how accurate they were for a project, and after that one I couldn't stop laughing for a week over that.  I was like holy cow wonder who has followed those instructions.  Its very funny sometimes to just plot locations in that you know how to get there because you've been there so many times just to see how far out of the way the electronics send you.

I have a Garmin Hand-Held GPS that works great, but once you get in a vehicle with it forget it, the metal of the vehicle throws that GPS off, and it looses its connection with the satellites.  I used my Garmin all the time when I was in Iraq, but I have to use for one at home, I just use a map.

Answer 4

Yes, mine always does its job, but you also need to use what is called "common since".

Answer 5

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is nothing funny about being stupid with a vehicle.

Using a GPS while driving makes the vehicle a 'crew-served' machine...That means one to drive, one to navigate...Our marine friend will vouch for that...The full attention of the driver must be on controlling the vehicle...Anything that takes away that attention or focus is a hazard to the operation of the vehicle...The first rule of driving is to know where the destination is and the second is to know what route to take BEFORE starting the trip.

Answer 6

duh mine always says make this right but its in the woods no road yet u have to be a bit crazy to follow that

Answer 7

Well I certainly wouldn't drive down the tracks but my GPS has screwed me over before. I drive a large truck with a trailer and I have gotten stuck on dead end narrow mountain roads due to my GPS. I followed my GPS right up to someones driveway once. The GPS told me to keep going straight through the house to the road I was looking for on the backside of the property. It took me awhile to get that big truck out of that situation. After that I quit using it once I got in to the mountains.

Answer 8

You have to do a reality check....don't get me wrong....I would sell my dog before I would give up my Garmin 660.

But in the real world you need to make the final decision yourself...

Answer 9

My Garmin has been off by a few feet but nothing as bad as that. If I was in a blizzard and only had enough gas to get it right the first time before freezing to death. Then yes I would.