Wednesday, March 25, 2009
A British driver has blamed his GPS navigation unit for leaving his car teetering on the edge of a cliff after he followed its instructions.
Robert Jones said he trusted his navigational system and continued to follow it when it told him the steep, narrow footpath he was driving on was a road.
Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, northern England, now has a court date for driving without due care and attention.
His BMW nearly plunged down a 100-foot cliff in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on Sunday.
He was only stopped from falling after the vehicle rammed into a wire fence.
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We've had similar instances while on scouting missions for our group drives. Not even Thomas Bros. is infallible, but far better than Google or Yahoo. How do so many gated driveways and goat trails end up as roads on their "maps?"
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