If it don't fit, you must acquit

[dalesys]

... GPS systems ... telling somebody to turn into a wall.

I guess they bricked that one.

[drunkenwildmage]

It's just a customer being right about anything is a rarity on this forum

I've heard stories about gps systems being spectacularly wrong, like telling somebody to turn into a wall.

Back when I was going to the local community college, they had to fish someone out of a pond on campus, because the GPS told them to take a path, going to the pond, as a road. Drove right past the 'No Motor Vehicle past this point' signs.

[wolfie]

Vehicles where they shouldn't be? Go to YouTube, and search on the terms "Semi" and "footbridge". Yep, people have taken 18-wheelers on PEDESTRIAN routes.

[eltf177]

Absolutely, Wolfie.

We had an old farm in the town where I work; it was in the county but the only access was via our town (love to know how that happened and the tax ramifications). The only access was across an old wooden bridge.

The land got sold and now access to the construction site was via an existing subdivision. We caught a fully-loaded concrete truck trying to use the old bridge and barely stopped the guy in time, there is NO way the bridge would have held that much weight...

We got some Jersey Barriers down there real quick after that and blocked it off. Now it's just for foot traffic...

[protege]

Here in Texas, there's a sign a distance before the overpass that says the clearance. Then, shortly thereafter, there is an exit, in case you can't fit under it.

Not only that, but there are signs on the overpasses themselves that have the clearances on them.

Same with a certain Norfolk Southern bridge over Washington Boulevard in Pittsburgh's East End. There are signs all over the place warning truckers not to head down there because of the low clearance. They're supposed to head towards East Liberty, and then back onto Washington Blvd if they're heading out of town. Yet, about once a week, some dipshit manages to get his semi stuck under that bridge...backing up traffic all over the neighborhood. At least you get to see the cop(s) rip the trucker a new asshole for the mess he (she?) just created

[Minflick]

I remember reading about an early mapping route in Los Angeles that sent cars to some stairs that connected 2 COMPLETELY separate sections of road.. Not new stairs, either. Decades old, and if the street got mapped, the stairs SHOULD have been noted.......