Been There Thread, SatNav (any interesting storie?

Last winter, James Kim left his wife and two children in their snow stranded Saab all wheel drive station wagon, and set off to find help. He had followed a shorter route to their destination, which led across Oregon's coastal mountains. That road was not plowed during winter, and although heavy snow in that part of Oregon isn't normal, it can happen and did that fatefull day.

Kim worked as an editor for CNET, an on-line electronics testing organization. When this first was reported, I found it incredulous that a person in Kim's business wouldn't have had a SatNav system with him. Since then, I have spoken to people who worked with James Kim, who said that he did indeed have a SatNav system with him in his car. I can only assume that Kim followed the SatNav's route, which did not have the information on weather conditions that would've kept him and his family from taking that route.

As SatNav systems become more widely used, information fed to those systems will, soon I'm sure, include specific driving instructions relating to road and weather conditions. The information is available now. It's just a matter of programming and coordination.

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Just found this thread!

SatNavs are a menace in our part of the UK. Our little town is at the end of a line with lots of narrow lanes both in and around the town.

Not so long ago, a huge truck turned down a really steep very narrow lane (because his SatNav told him to!) and managed to go quite a long way down it UNTIL he came to where the houses started, when the road got a lot narrower! Near the bottom of the road he got totally and utterly STUCK. Couldn't got forward or back.

I can't remember now how truck and driver were extricated, but I believe a crane was involved.

I also gather that SatNav are introducing a "Red Route" purely for lorries. About time too.

But even cars get into trouble round here. Someone took a very large Jag down a very narrow road in town and it was too narrow at the far end for the car to get through. The driver was elderly and a resident had to help him reverse the length of the lane so he could turn round. SatNav again! And there was absolutely no reason for SatNav to send anyone down there anyway, as the road runs parallel with the main road! DUH! :roll:

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My story happened some 20-22 years ago long before Sat Navs had been dreamed of.
I was posted back to my home county North Yorkshire (England) from the south by my employer and was looking for houses.
I was driving my Land Rover uphill on a very narrow road in 4 wheel drive and low ratio gear and 1st gear, to view a house following the route on the details that I had obtained from the estate agent.
Halfway up it suddenly occurred to me, what am I doing. We would never be able to get a furniture van up to the house.
Sadly I never did view the house, it must have had the most splendid views over the Dale.

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