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Title: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by solotripper on Mar 26^th, 2009 at 7:56pm

It had to happen eventually ;D

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Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by marlin55388 on Mar 27^th, 2009 at 12:52am

The lights are on but nobody is home ;D

Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by Mad_Mat on Mar 27^th, 2009 at 1:03pm

he's probably related to that guy in the motorhome who sued GM or whoever it was, because they didn't tell him that cruise control wasn't the same thing as autopilot, and no, he shouldn't get up out of the driver's seat to go in back for a cup of coffee.

Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by solotripper on Mar 27^th, 2009 at 9:08pm

Mad_Mat wrote on Mar 27^th, 2009 at 1:03pm:

Isn't that the guy, who's wife sued GE , because it didn't say in the user manual that DRYING your cat in the micro-wave is a no-no ;D

Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by Piggyn on Mar 28^th, 2009 at 12:29am

There have been similar instances where people drove into a lake because their GPS told them to.

Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by Akula on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 7:28pm

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Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by solotripper on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 11:06pm

I'm sure as GPS becomes cheaper and offered in more and more vehicles, these stories will get even more prevalent.
I'm sure that eventually we'll have some Q/BW paddling stories of people who followed their GPS without question even though the compass and visual cues didn't support what the GPS was telling them ;D

Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by Snow_Dog on Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 11:43pm

I hope nobody's GPS is even slightly off at the top of Curtain Falls, then...it'd be a horrible waste of a good canoe! ;)

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Post by azalea on Apr 3^rd, 2009 at 4:43am

I suspect most of us who have been exploring the outdoors have at some point followed an inaccurate map a ways before that "ahah" moment hits and we decide maybe we need another plan. It is not so different.

Title: Re: GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Post by old_salt on Apr 3^rd, 2009 at 3:35pm

This thread should probably be in Back to Civilization. :-/