Are We Allowing Technology to Replace Common Sense?

This is what happened to a driver who put her faith in her satellite navigation system – she ended up in deep water. The £96,000 Mercedes sports car was swept away in a swollen river and the motorist had to be rescued as it sank.

The driver, the latest of many to be led astray by satnavs, was on her way to a christening party in Leicestershire when she was sent down a winding track usually used only by farmers in their 4x4s.

Although the track is signposted as ‘unsuitable for motor vehicles’, the driver carried on and found herself at a ford in the village of Sheepy Magna.

Still accepting what the satnav told her, she set out to cross the ford, but it was swollen after days of heavy rain.

The Mercedes SL500 was swept 600 yards downstream, bouncing fromone bank of the River Sense to the other as the woman, in her late 20s and from London, frantically tried to escape.


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AMGC55 - 3/20/2007 12:26:53 PM

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ummm obviously she had no common sense at all...

its kinda funny

jt716 - 3/20/2007 12:30:11 PM

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Blonde Woman lol

EvoAudi - 3/20/2007 6:14:36 PM

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beat me to it.

Rupert - 3/20/2007 12:47:20 PM

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Makes me ashamed to be English...

EL34 - 3/20/2007 4:11:36 PM

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Yeah, I wonder when I ever have to take a driving test at the DMV if I could use the self-parking doodad or will the instructor give me a failing grade?

truecarlover - 3/20/2007 4:58:18 PM

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Technology is can be intrusive and it takes away from the art of driving. Even in everyday life you see it. People can't add because they need a calculator. No one can give or get human directions without consulting their nav. system or the internet. People whose lives are in their PDA can't remember anything unless their computer reminds them. Technology is meant to enhance us - not to lead us. We are the ones who are supposed to be in control.

Rupert - 3/20/2007 5:10:02 PM

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i actually realised yesterday i have no idea how to do a subtraction on paper.

answer - 3/20/2007 8:34:26 PM

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Technology will never overcome human error.

There will always be some form of EL34 walking around a thousand years from now.

Scary.

S4cabriofoxone - 3/20/2007 9:17:14 PM

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LOL.