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Computer geek follows GPS commands into 60-mph oncoming train
This blog predicted this in a post a couple weeks ago. We just didn’t think it would come true so soon.
Totalling a rental car and leaving him and the rental company liable for hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage, a man in Bedford Hills (New York) drove his car onto some railroad tracks after the car’s GPS device told him to.
Unfortunately, the GPS wasn’t programmed to handle driver incompetency, and when the driver noticed a train barreling down on him and found the car unresponsive, he jumped out and frantically tried to warn the conductor.
Trains don’t just stop on a dime though, and as the man dove out of the way, the train smashed into the car, dragging it 100 feet and seriously damaging 250 feet of track as a fireball exploded during the rush hour accident. Five hundred train passengers were left stranded.
And the best part? The guy was a computer consultant. Computers have been a boon for us all, but they haven’t replaced common sense. Yet.
