Another victim of GPS ?
By topffer
@topffer (42156)
France
January 14, 2019 9:17am CST
The picture speaks by itself. Last night a guy following blindly his GPS reached this point in the old downtown of Auch. It was a point of no return. He was still there when the police found him at 9am, blocking the pedestrian access to the street from this medieval city door.
Alright, he was perhaps a bit drunk, as the car needed to climb a stair to reach the door, and the police found 1.4g of alcohol per liter of his blood. He says that the guilty one is the GPS. Anybody is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, the driver like the GPS, and they may share the responsibility for this mess.
Beautiful place, isn't it ?
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@purplealabaster (22094)
• United States
14 Jan 19
My GPS has tried to take me to some pretty questionable places, but it has not yet instructed me to try to climb stairs with my car. Then again, it did try to get me to turn left over an embankment with no road in sight just an almost straight drop down a few weeks ago, so I'm not sure that is any better.
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@purplealabaster (22094)
• United States
14 Jan 19
@topffer My GPS doesn't have pedestrian mode ... or it it does, I'm too dumb to find it!
Last year, I was driving cross-country, and I needed a local hotel for the night. I tried to get the directions to one through my GPS, and it took me to a field in the middle of nowhere.
Last year, I was driving cross-country, and I needed a local hotel for the night. I tried to get the directions to one through my GPS, and it took me to a field in the middle of nowhere.1 person likes this
@topffer (42156)
• France
14 Jan 19
@purplealabaster And there was not a sign telling "Soon, a hotel will be build here"?
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Jan 19
A good job it was not really high up then and there was a wall there to stop him going any further.
Those gadgets are not totally reliable but ours saw us through France with no problem at all and even though there was a really bad accident and they forced us to go out of our way by 30 miles we still found our way to Calais.
Thank goodness nothing like a big disaster happens.
Cars here come very close to the subways and you can feel their speed and often they sound like they are going to come down the subway instead.
Hope they have got their GPS in order.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
17 Jan 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 Yes, nobody was harmed. The police called the pound to remove the car, and they had a hard time to do it.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
14 Jan 19
When someone is drunk being driven home in a driverless car and it goes haywire, who is to blame?
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@YrNemo (20261)
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2 Feb 19
A beautiful pic with that shiny car in a nice area . (A workmate gave me a lift to a veggie store recently (close to our workplace, about 500m away). Using a GPS, he drove around and around and around for 15minutes. Then after parking the car according to the GPS, we had to walk another 200m to get to the store - only to find out after all those troubles, that the store had another parking area adjacent to it.
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. (A workmate gave me a lift to a veggie store recently (close to our workplace, about 500m away). Using a GPS, he drove around and around and around for 15minutes. Then after parking the car according to the GPS, we had to walk another 200m to get to the store - only to find out after all those troubles, that the store had another parking area adjacent to it.)1 person likes this
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@much2say (53958)
• Los Angeles, California
21 Jan 19
Wow, I don't think I can even drive or attempt to drive a car up the stairs - with or without GPS - now that's talent . Maybe the GPS and car were more drunk than the driver - did anyone check - I have my conspiracy theories 
. I just wonder how they would get the car out of there - and would they need to GPS to get out 
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@much2say (53958)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jan 19
@topffer Obviously he did not even realize he wasn't supposed to drive up the stairs! Lucky no one was on that stairway at the time (I guess?). I have strange nightmares about driving in reverse . . . I can only imagine driving reverse down the stairs would be scary . But I suppose if one were super drunk, you could fly off the balcony and not have a care in the world !
. But I suppose if one were super drunk, you could fly off the balcony and not have a care in the world !1 person likes this
@topffer (42156)
• France
22 Jan 19
A GPS asking to climb stairs is usually in pedestrian mode, otherwise one should consider a refund. What is funny is that he managed to climb up these stairs but did not dared to climb them down. A problem with driving reverse? It is the pound that removed the car, the article says that they needed 1 hour.
. What is funny is that he managed to climb up these stairs but did not dared to climb them down. A problem with driving reverse? It is the pound that removed the car, the article says that they needed 1 hour.1 person likes this
@allknowing (130064)
• India
16 Jan 19
GPS is a craze among the young. I was with a youngster who followed the GPS but went on asking passersby for directions (lol)
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
14 Jan 19
Beautiful.
Now we need to sue the Catholic Church & most other Christian Churches because their instruction-book tells us to jump out of boats and walk on water, but everytime we try we sink right in
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
14 Jan 19
That is a beautiful place. I don't think blaming the GPS is going to stick in court. Perhaps he will end up being a lesson for others.
As an aside, we were following the GPS to a bookstore not too long ago. The GPS said something along the lines of "turn left and left." Not quite those words, what the GPS said was rather strange and unhelpful. We did know where we were going by that point and so we didn't listen to it.
Had we listened to it, we would have been driving where there was no entrance to a shopping center.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
14 Jan 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I cannot tell, it is not the police that evaluates that but a state architect, he will know soon.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
14 Jan 19
@topffer The GPS will put you off in the middle of the road instead of my home. It did that where I previously lived as well.
Oh yes, I certainly hope there wasn't a lot of damage incurred, but that would serve him right I suppose.
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@stine1online (835)
• Germany
1 Feb 19
Reminds me of our trip to LA in 2010...
"Please turn left in 200 meters"
Uhm... they are building a subway right there, I CANNOT turn left!
"Please turn left now!"
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
15 Jan 19
pretty place. It must have been a bumpy ride though.
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@didinedhia (8475)
• Algeria
2 Feb 19
lmaoooooooooooooooooo,that is not gps fault !!!
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@Letranknight2015 (51532)
• Philippines
15 Jan 19
Meh, just take the guy to jail, let him have his hang over and regret his actions.
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