[1rudeboy]

Probably yapping on her cell the whole time.

[tomkat]

Sorry ladies, but . . .

             

[Brightitude]

(during the second day of driving) she realized that something was amiss... She told El Mundo that she wasn't paying attention.

Gee, ya think?

[cripplecreek]

Mankind is doomed.

[discostu]

Technology dependency. Makes me glad I’m in QA, I have a natural distrust of tech, I don’t automatically believe any directions from Google or a GPS, always actually look at the map path to see if it makes sense, and usually tweak it because they take roads I avoid.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I know the feeling. I mindlessly follow the GPS as it tells me to go blocks out of the way and make huge loops around the city to get to the same place I could have gone if I just went straight. Faith in the GPS can be like a religion — you don’t question it.

[muir_redwoods]

These people vote

[austinaero]

This woman should not be driving a car!

[John Valentine]

Somebody needs to contact the friend waiting at the Brussels train station to tell her that her ride is going to be late. Maybe she should think about taking a taxi.

[Doomonyou]

Blond?

[Riley]

re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...re-calculating...

[Daus]

My wife’s record (pre-GPS mind you) is 125 miles the wrong way.

[I want the USA back]

Human reason and common sense should override machines. Judging from past experience, I doubt that it will. Too many people put complete faith in machines, especially if the machine is a computer.

[umgud]

At least it didn’t detour her thru Martin Luther King Blvd.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

A machine is only as smart as the user.

[Fedupwithit]

See, 300 years ago, if this woman would have just wandered off into the woods, without any bearings as to where she was going, she would just never be heard from again. Natural selection at its best.

In today's world however, this woman drives and drives, having no internal feeling that something is wrong until she is 900 miles away from her destination, and it becomes an AP story that circles the globe for a read and a good laugh..

[wolfman23601]

I used a GPS one time and it betrayed me. Almost missed a buddy’s wedding. I will never use one again.

[YukonGreen]

She must be a sister of Obama. Doesn’t know north from south or east from west.

[libertarian27]

I use GPS a lot - I go to unfamiliar areas all the time for work.

In some cases I’ll set it to “shortest route” to see if there’s a better route...it’ll send you through fields - off the road to rocky dirt paths - makes driving exciting :)

[alancarp]

Just curious at what point she thought something might be wrong... on the second or third gas fill-up for this 90-mile trip?