(((I don't want the belabor the issue of "predicting the present"
here, but when I predicted in 2004 that cars following outdated
software maps would drive straight off bridges, I was already
aware of real-world cases of this happening. Now
Regine Debatty, whose sources are so great that she's
practically supernatural, has found a whole crowd of 'em.
The locals are actually MAKING MONEY from this, they're
like Cornish shipbreakers who wait by the rocks of software to loot
the goods from storm-wrecked galleons.)))
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008647.php
I watch her FlickR set, too, folks; can't get enough! Really!
"Since a road closure, dozens of drivers were blithely following directions from their satellite navigation systems, not realising that the recommended route goes through the ford. Every day since the main B4040 was closed after a wall collapsed on April 8 one or two motorists have been towed out, having either failed to notice or ignored warning signs. Some farmers have been charging £25 to give a tow with tractors. Lesley Bennett, a Luckington parish councillor, said: “When the car conks out the driver looks stunned. When you ask what happened, they say, ‘My sat-nav told me it was this way’.”
