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Drive into boat harbor >>> Now hijacked to Gun Control thread
#1
It happened again.  A motorist on Hawaii island drives directly into the boat harbor and yet again blames it on GPS directions.  What is going on here?!
Okay I accept the probability of computer error and the GPS voice telling the driver to take the next left but wtf?!  Aren't they aware of their surroundings?  Aren't they looking as their car is about go down a ramp and enter the water?  Is this just extreme stupidity or something more? 

https://www.kitv.com/video/news/another-...a393f.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acveXIM8FZo


 If it is just extreme idiocy, there ought to be a system in place similar to DUI where if you f***-up on a level this grand, your license should be revoked for a period of time and tests need to be taken and passed to earn it back and prove you aren't a danger to others out there and deserve to be out on the road again.  Hash-tag keep-idiots-off-the-road
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#2
You would think they’d fix that entrance ramp signage for the future I-42
(Image from Bojack Horseman)


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#3
It used to be that anybody using GPS to find our house was sent to a non-descript place on a different road. Because of this, we would give explicit instructions "do not use GPS to find our house, follow these SIMPLE driving directions". Invariably, they would call us, lost, saying "GPS says I'm at your address, but I don't see a driveway here. What should we do?"

I don't know, because I don't know where you are. Return to the highway and follow the simple directions we gave you.

Eventually I figured out that Google maps had our address correct, but for some reason thought our driveway was on the road behind us. Which doesn't make sense because that would require our driveway to plow through somebody else's property, but whatever. I used the "correct the map" feature and a few days later android GPS could take people to our address and somehow magically, so did iPhone about a week later.

I wonder if anybody has used the "correct the map" feature to show that the boat ramp isn't a road?
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#4
But where are their eyes?  Ciri or Roberta or Alexa or whatever says, "next left" and they just gun it strait into the water like sheep?
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#5
When the last part of Saddle Road into Hilo was completed, my GPS at the time thought I was driving on a lava field!

Ironically, the old TV sitcom “The Office” dealt with this very issue years ago!

https://youtu.be/DOW_kPzY_JY
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(05-31-2023, 07:02 PM)terracore,  I had several "interesting" trips around the island when the person I was with ensured me that their GPS would get us there with out me having to tell them..... We all know how that turns out!! LOL Wrote: It used to be that anybody using GPS to find our house was sent to a non-descript place on a different road.  Because of this, we would give explicit instructions "do not use GPS to find our house, follow these SIMPLE driving directions".  Invariably, they would call us, lost, saying "GPS says I'm at your address, but I don't see a driveway here.  What should we do?"

I don't know, because I don't know where you are.  Return to the highway and follow the simple directions we gave you. 

Eventually I figured out that Google maps had our address correct, but for some reason thought our driveway was on the road behind us. Which doesn't make sense because that would require our driveway to plow through somebody else's property, but whatever.  I used the "correct the map" feature and a few days later android GPS could take people to our address and somehow magically, so did iPhone about a week later.

I wonder if anybody has used the "correct the map" feature to show that the boat ramp isn't a road?


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#7
Its both Orton + blindly trusting the Science.. riiight ?

https://punaweb.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=23061

eta to Add a quick one .. For those who have ever wondered what would happen if.
>>> Car + Flatbed ( ramp down ) Insert Dukes of Hazzard theme.

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attac...0f4ef4.mp4

GPS said no traffic .. lol.
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#8
(05-31-2023, 07:30 PM)Or1on Wrote: But where are their eyes?  Ciri or Roberta or Alexa or whatever says, "next left" and they just gun it strait into the water like sheep?

The driver did state that she thought the water was a big puddle. 

After living in the Acres for 25 years I can somewhat relate!
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#9
Royall!  

Haven't heard/seen from you in ages.  How are things?  Are you back on the BI?
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#10
OMG.
Would insurance pay for such a monumentally stupid act?
I’m thinking NO.
It gives one pause to consider how many nincompoops in this country are gripping a steering wheel, or firearm for that matter, at any given moment.
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