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This reminds of a story I vaguely recall of a lady in Europe who followed GPS directions which took her to Italy or something from Belgium, instead of the airpo

• Clewza313 6y ago
  It was, incredibly, even worse than that: she meant to drive 90 miles, but ended up going from Belgium to Croatia, a distance of over 900 miles: https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-drives-900-miles-gps-error-181605523.html https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-drives-900-miles... You'd think she'd twig on during the 2nd day of driving...
  • ericmay 6y ago
    Gosh. So crazy to read about again. Thanks for digging up that link!
• Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
  In 2019, an elderly Italian immigrant living in Newcastle, England, got into his Jaguar to make his annual trip to Rome to visit relatives. He had made the journey by car several times before, but that year was the first time that he tried to use his new satellite navigation system. When he stopped for fuel, the satnav stopped giving him directions, so he asked someone in the petrol station for help. Unfortunately, the helpful passer-by had misunderstood and entered the small Bavarian village of Rom, 1000 miles north of Rome, as the destination. The driver noticed that the roads he was following were unfamiliar, but assumed that the satnav had mapped out a better route. To make matters worse, when he arrived in Rom and got out of the car to try to figure out what had gone wrong, he didn't apply the handbrake properly. The car rolled backwards, injuring him as he was dragged along the road by the door, before colliding with the village sign (and being written off as a total loss).