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Subject:Re: GPS Can Be Hazardous To Your Vehicle
From:Raymond Paquette
Date:Fri, 23 May 2008 20:27:25 -0400

I saw a VW ad (video) somewhere online where they did just that-except
they drove the syncro up stairs.

On 4/18/08, Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com> wrote:
> So?
>
> If you were in a syncro it would have made perfect sense.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 4/17/08 12:35 PM, "Joy Hecht" <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>> Maps can be hazardous too.  I was once navigating while a friend drove our
>> rented car through some town in France.  We end up in the old part of the
>> city, past a plaza with a church and I'm poring over the map and telling
>> her
>> "we have to turn left, we have to turn left."  She's ignoring me.
>>
>> Finally she said "joy, LOOK at where you're directing me to turn!"
>>
>> It was a staircase.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Joy
>>
>> ********************************************************
>>
>> Joy Hecht
>> and Matilda, 1989 burgundy vanagon
>> www.joyhecht.net
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>> Loren Busch
>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:11 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: GPS Can Be Hazardous To Your Vehicle
>>
>> Only skightly off topic considering the number of us that use GPS based
>> navigation systems in our Vanagons:
>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004354292_webbuscrash17.htm
>> l
>> Tab through the pictures!!
>> When the driver was asked "What happened?" he responded "I was just
>> following the onboard GPS system".  I guess that was after disconnecting
>> brain.  Maybe I'd better shut up now that I think of the time I almost
>> drove
>> into a low garage with the Bagawest carrier up top.....
>>
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