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Subject:Re: GPS Can Be Hazardous To Your Vehicle
From:Mike Miller
Date:Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:24:29 -0700

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.
>
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> Joy
>
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> 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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