A UK woman was led into disaster by hewing too closely to her in-car navigation’s directions.
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 4×4s.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.
£96,000 Merc written off as satnav leads woman astray [ThisIsLondon.co.uk]
Sheepy Magna? She’s cruising through sheepy magna? now that’s pretty unique.
Natural selection.
The thing is, I know how easy this is to happen thanks to in particular smaller towns NOT following the plans they laid out and go by.
Case in point, if you where to use a GPS to find your way around a area of Brick NJ called Cape Breton, you would think you could just drive right along the coast of a river to another area called Eagle Point. That is unless you went there and found out that the “road” that is shown on every map of Brick ever created except in the last few years, doesnt even exist, and some dolt built a house right in the middle of it. It took residence of Cape Breton nearly 10 years to get the city to realize that not only was the road now gone in real life, but that someone was illegally building a house on it that by the time the city did realize the mistake, the house was built and the road was gone everywhere except on the map.
In the end the guy was fined a few bucks and that was it but it was another 3-4 years before they put out a map with the removal of what was now a “paper” street. And this was just by my house. As a kid I knew about 20-30 of these “paper roads” around the area that we used to explore. They look like real roads on a map, even are marked as paved roads, but no one actually went there to pave them (and it wouldn’t shock me if they where paid to do it and never did it since no on would actually check), so many are dirt road to nowhere or are so disused that they where overgrown again (in particular man of the roads in the mashes that eventually NJ enacted laws to protect have since disappeared)
Look at a map, or even a google earth overlay, and they still exist. Thats the problem (or the benefit) with the march of technology, slowly it starts to uncover things that where once though to be true for what they really are.
She must have been high.
I hear they get some good hash over the pond.
ahem
anyhow
paper roads?
crazy
paper roads = roads on paper that do not exist in real life.