Springbok747 From Australia, joined Nov 2004, 4387 posts, RR: 13 Posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2660 times:
A Doncaster man is facing a "hefty recovery bill", and an appearance before the beak on a driving without due care and attention rap, after following his BMW's satnav to the edge of a West Yorkshire cliff, the Telegraph reports.
Phoenix9 From Canada, joined Aug 2007, 2546 posts, RR: 8 Reply 2, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2660 times:
Quoting Springbok747 (Thread starter): How did this guy have enough brains to have a job that pays well enough to drive a BMW 5-series?
Probably mooching off his parents....or talking on the cellphone without paying any attention to where he is going. Probably going to be this yrs Darwin award runner up.
Life only makes sense when you look at it backwards.
N864DA From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 259 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2556 times:
Quoting Springbok747 (Thread starter): A Doncaster man is facing a "hefty recovery bill", and an appearance before the beak on a driving without due care and attention rap, after following his BMW's satnav to the edge of a West Yorkshire cliff, the Telegraph reports.
Baroque From Australia, joined Apr 2006, 15380 posts, RR: 60 Reply 5, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 2439 times:
Quoting Springbok747 (Thread starter): A Doncaster man is facing a "hefty recovery bill", and an appearance before the beak on a driving without due care and attention rap, after following his BMW's satnav to the edge of a West Yorkshire cliff, the Telegraph reports.
Where might In the village of Gauxholme, he was directed up a narrow footpath which led to a fence, beyond which were "stunning views across the Pennines". be???
This reminded me of a stand up routine from British comic Andy Parsons - ' A sat nav is a gadget and if you ask it to take you to Paris it assumes that you have the intelligence that you require a ferry when you arrive at the coast to cross the channel'
If you was right..................I'd agree with you
Dragon6172 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 1160 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2360 times:
Quoting Phoenix9 (Reply 2): Probably going to be this yrs Darwin award runner up.
I believe you have to actually kill yourself or do something that would make you not able to reproduce to make the Darwin awards, although they may do honorable mentions.
MWHCVT From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2008, 573 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2310 times:
I hate to say it, but this is typical of most Sat-nav users. I've lost count of the number of times that I have been cut up at a very busy local island and more often than not you notice that distinctive blue glow of the sat-nav.
Drivers seem to forget that essential routine when driving and just assume that all around them realize that they as the driver of the car has been ordered and must obey, to make the turn.
Mirror, Signal, Maneuver Dumbass.
Must think up a new one soon, slow moving brain trying to get into gear ;)
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11122 posts, RR: 63 Reply 12, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2308 times:
I think you'd need to see pictures of what's behind the car before you judge; it could be that there's a paved road running beside the wall and that he got stuck attempting to turn around at the end - that's the first thought which occurs to me.
A few years ago a lorry did something similar here in Devon, only it couldn't turn around at the end and had driven so far up a tiny 'unclassified' road that it had to be dismantled to get it back out again. That was caused by poor map reading though.
That's what I was thinking at first but looking at it, it's just a base SE model with nasty 16" wheels. Not worth a great deal these days if it was say a 2003 model. Still, beats a Touareg.
David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9215 posts, RR: 42 Reply 16, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 2271 times:
Quoting MWHCVT (Reply 11): this is typical of most Sat-nav users. I've lost count of the number of times that I have been cut up at a very busy local island and more often than not you notice that distinctive blue glow of the sat-nav.
I'm not sure I see the connection between getting "cut up" and Sat-nav. People without Sat-nav have done the same to me many times... unless Micras and Corsas, etc, had Sat-nav ten years ago. I'd also add that "most Sat-nav users" I know do not drive like that.
Aero145 From Iceland, joined Jan 2005, 3070 posts, RR: 23 Reply 17, posted (4 years 1 month 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 2268 times:
Quoting Myt332 (Reply 15): That's what I was thinking at first but looking at it, it's just a base SE model with nasty 16" wheels. Not worth a great deal these days if it was say a 2003 model.
Heck, some people can’t afford a 10-yo VW Polo... a first-MY 5-series with the least interesting gadgets still isn’t cheap.
Danfearn77 From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2008, 1780 posts, RR: 9 Reply 20, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 2012 times:
Quoting Nighthawk (Reply 10): Quoting Danfearn77 (Reply 9):
What i dont understand is he was visiting his friends, surely he must have known where he was going.
Maybe they just moved and he was visiting for the first time?
Anyway, typical BMW driver!
Yes...thanks!!
As soon as i posted i thought of that! Was hoping no one would pull me up on it!
Eagles may soar high, but weasels dont get sucked into jet engines!
Smcmac32msn From United States of America, joined May 2004, 2211 posts, RR: 5 Reply 21, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1979 times:
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 12): I think you'd need to see pictures of what's behind the car before you judge; it could be that there's a paved road running beside the wall and that he got stuck attempting to turn around at the end - that's the first thought which occurs to me.
This reminds me of a joke:
Whats the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?
A porcupine has the pricks on the outside.
Hey Obama, keep the change! I want my dollar back.
Alessandro From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 22, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1972 times:
I read about a German driver whom drove into a river due to error in the sat-nav, they had marked it as a bridge, but it was a ferry to cross the river...
LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12331 posts, RR: 12 Reply 23, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1915 times:
There have been a number of horror stories as to mis-use of Sat-nav's from people running into trains, into rivers, trucks (lorries) and busses too tall for a low bridge or too heavy for one weight limited, and so on. They are a tool, they are programed and used by humans with their flaws, and to be carefully used, not be a slave to.
That this incident occured involving a BMW suggests that many buy them for show rather than their performance abilities.
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