This isn't at all about IT (I suppose I could come up with some clever analogy but that I'd be making it up) but I couldn't resist. I love my Alpine navigation unit in my car. I fly with no fewer than 3 Garmin GPS navigators. I use a Garmin Nuvi whenever I'm renting in any city in North America. Clearly I like the utility of GPS-based navigators but disconnecting your brain in the process can make for a very bad day...especially when flying.  The photo is from the related article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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Driver puts faith in GPS, shears off top of charter bus on bridge

Posted Apr 18th 2008 7:29PM by Jonathon Ramsey
Filed under: Gadgets, Etc., Tech


As of today, we're taking bets to see how long it will take before people realize that 'GPS' does not stand for 'Auto Pilot.' The latest 'But the GPS told me to...' story is brought to you by a charter bus driver in Seattle. Piloting a coach through the Washington Arboretum -- as the GPS instructed him -- the driver ignored, or didn't see, or didn't believe (take your pick) the flashing lights and sign warning him that his 11-foot-high bus was too tall for the looming 9-foot concrete overpass.

You can see how the story ends. The overpass ended up with some superficial damage, the coach got a"

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