oh, there are just too many to choose.
Driver gets lost at night while toting two friends in a rental. Their GPS really helped get them out of a jam:
http://bellevue.komonews.com/news/911/women-escape-sinking-car-after-crashing-merc...
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June 16, 2011 9:10 a.m. oldsaw SuperDork
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June 16, 2011 9:16 a.m. cwh SuperDork
And that's a Mercedes.
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June 16, 2011 9:21 a.m. AngryCorvair SuperDork
i'm not buying it until the exact path can be duplicated by the same GPS system. quick, before the software update is released.
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June 16, 2011 9:21 a.m. rob_lewis Dork
Can't be a Mercedes. Don't they have that "We'll stop the car for you if you're an idiot" feature? I see it on all the commercials how the guy falls asleep so his Mercedes stops for him or the distracted woman and the Mercedes stopped for her. Saving their lives AND THEIR CHILDREN!! Think of the CHILDREN!!
I think the driver should sue Mercedes for not implementing the stop feature on that SUV. Why should she have to think behind the wheel? The car should do it for her.
(Yeah, I'm feeling snarky today....)
-Rob
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June 16, 2011 9:24 a.m. z31maniac SuperDork
And that's why people should learn how to read maps and follow directions.
Geeeeez.
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June 16, 2011 9:33 a.m. keethrax HalfDork
rob_lewis wrote:
Can't be a Mercedes. Don't they have that "We'll stop the car for you if you're an idiot" feature?
This one?
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June 16, 2011 10:40 a.m. Wally SuperDork
You would think they would atleast wonder ehere the bridge went.
This is the polite way of saying we don't normally see stupidity of this level out in the open.
Fire Lt. said:
"We've seen sitcom parodies of something like this and to actually see it is surprising," said Lt. Eric Keenan with the Bellevue Fire Department.
"I don't know why they wouldn't question driving into a puddle that doesn't seem to end," Keenan said.
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June 16, 2011 10:42 a.m. Wally SuperDork
In reply to rob_lewis:
The computer is advanced enough to seperate true idiocy from temporary distraction and actively worked to drown it out of the gene pool. I like it.
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June 16, 2011 11:52 a.m. AngryCorvair SuperDork
Wally wrote:
In reply to rob_lewis:
The computer is advanced enough to seperate true idiocy from temporary distraction and actively worked to drown it out of the gene pool. I like it.
+1
alternate title to story:
GPS/NAV weeding out Darwin Award candidates
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June 16, 2011 12:12 p.m. pinchvalve SuperDork
I think it is a case of underestimating the Mercedes. The vehicle felt that it could have made it across the bottom of the lake, all they had to do was close the windows and sunroof and hit the Submarine button. Jeez.
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June 16, 2011 12:24 p.m. foxtrapper SuperDork
I dunno, I could believe the GPS coming up with this. Mine tries to put me down the runway of the local airport when I ask it to route to a nearby town.
That said, you're supposed to look where you're going. Which is why I haven't driven down the runway, not matter how sure the GPS is that I should.
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June 16, 2011 12:33 p.m. Salanis SuperDork
foxtrapper wrote:
That said, you're supposed to look where you're going. Which is why I haven't driven down the runway, not matter how sure the GPS is that I should.
GPS directions are not the reason you should drive down a runway.
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June 16, 2011 12:35 p.m. keethrax HalfDork
My wife borrowed a GPS from work one day to try it out. They had just gotten new ones, and as she works way out in the woods, being familiar with the new GPS was important.
There's a "new" road that the GPS wasn't aware of, and it pretty much panicked when we took said road.
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June 16, 2011 12:38 p.m. MrJoshua SuperDork
Yep, google maps directed us through private property and across the back of a field on the field road all the way to 50' from the entrance of the destination neighborhood. Unfortunately we were 50' away, on the other side of a row of bushes.
Fortunately they were freshly planted so we just temporarily removed them, drove through, and replanted them. The police officer didn't think "Google maps told me to" was a good excuse. 
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June 16, 2011 6:20 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
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June 16, 2011 6:27 p.m. familytruckster New Reader
I have seen far too many people driving and changing lanes without looking away from their GPS.
It's sad.
