Man using GPS drives into path of train in New York suburb

Canuckistanian

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Fri Jan-04-08 07:49 AM
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Man using GPS drives into path of train in New York suburb

BEDFORD HILLS, New York - A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things - but not when a train is coming.

A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him.

A train was barrelling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080103/K01039AU.html

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meegbear

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Fri Jan-04-08 07:58 AM
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1. Is the GPS supposed to tell him to look first?

At this rate, we're gonna have to start printing instructions of packages of toilet paper.

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Canuckistanian

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Fri Jan-04-08 08:03 AM
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2. He must have had the "train alert" option turned off

You know how complicated these newfangled things are.....

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