Epic Fail!

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idiot. :bang:
 
Hahah...probably selected 'Shortest Route' instead of 'Fastest Route' - that invariably leads you up farm-tracks unless you select 'Never' in the options menu when it asks you about unpaved roads...

GPS is brilliant, but you still have to Read The Bloody Manual...lol
 
I didn't know Tom Tom was detailed enough to include bridal paths that are unsuitable for motor vehicles?
 
chameleon said:
I didn't know Tom Tom was detailed enough to include bridal paths that are unsuitable for motor vehicles?
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If you pick the 'on foot' option it'll take you along public footpaths if you like...
 
Thank god he wasnt in a country with 1000ft drops....the idiot would now be in a strengthened bin liner with a YKK zip
 
Try using ANYTHING to navigate round Edinburgh! Feet are about the only things that work these days...
 
It must be a German-car thing (from the Daily Mail)....

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"This is what happened to a driver who put her faith in her satellite navigation system she ended up in deep water. The £96,000 Mercedes sports car was swept away in a swollen river and the motorist had to be rescued as it sank.

The driver, the latest of many to be led astray by satnavs, was on her way to a christening party in Leicestershire when she was sent down a winding track usually used only by farmers in their 4x4s.

Although the track is signposted as "unsuitable for motor vehicles", the driver carried on and found herself at a ford in the village of Sheepy Magna.

Still accepting what the satnav told her, she set out to cross the ford, but it was swollen after days of heavy rain.

The Mercedes SL500 was swept 600 yards downstream, bouncing fromone bank of the River Sense to the other as the woman, in her late 20s and from London, frantically tried to escape."

Shouldn't laugh really :lol: :lol:
 
BMW drivers can go where they like.....that's the LAW



:D
 
No but I might in someone else's :-)
 
In the US I knowingly selected shortest route on a couple of occasions, fully aware of what could happen. First time it sent me down a dirt track, but it was a damn good dirt track that would put some of our tarmac roads to shame.

The second time it invited me to drive through a sinister looking trashy trailer park. Now, I'm all up for photographing urban decay, but on this occasion I declined to follow the Tom Tom guidance.
 
MisterE said:
The second time it invited me to drive through a sinister looking trashy trailer park. Now, I'm all up for photographing urban decay, but on this occasion I declined to follow the Tom Tom guidance.
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that happened to me in leeds once , using satnav , i swear it was like driving into an episode of streetwars or traffic cops , people staring as you drove past , gangs of hooded chavs , 3 legged dogs , bollards blocking roads off all over the place :eek:
 
There should be additional options IMO: "brightly-lit safe-to-drive route" and "high probability of being murdered by in-bred red-necks route"
 
On from the original post from CT, he was in the news again this week and he has been prosecuted Clicky Up Date On Story
 
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