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GPS- No replacement for common sense!
Mar 26th, 2009 at 7:56pm
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It had to happen eventually Grin

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Reply #1 - Mar 27th, 2009 at 12:52am
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The lights are on but nobody is home Grin
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 27th, 2009 at 1:03pm
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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.
  
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Reply #3 - Mar 27th, 2009 at 9:08pm
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Mad_Mat wrote on Mar 27th, 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.


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 Grin
  
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Reply #4 - Mar 28th, 2009 at 12:29am
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There have been similar instances where people drove into a lake because their GPS told them to.
  
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Reply #5 - Apr 2nd, 2009 at 7:28pm
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http://www.startribune.com/local/42297142.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr
  
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Reply #6 - Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:06pm
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  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 Grin
  
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Reply #7 - Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:43pm
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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!  Wink
  
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Reply #8 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 4:43am
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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.
  
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Reply #9 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 3:35pm
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This thread should probably be in Back to Civilization. Undecided
  
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