Posted on 08/14/2012 4:04:48 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Transit and Brookline police officers rescued a South Attleboro woman and her car from the Green Line tracks early yesterday morning after she claimed she was led there by her GPS, which she said instructed her to take a left turn onto the inbound trolley tracks, according to cops
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Just bits of grey fluff blown in by mistake.
You have to be just a hair smarter than the GPS.
After all if a person can sue Wimnebago and win millions for going off the road because he put the cruise control on and went back to make a pot of coffee because there wasn't a caution label warning him not to.....
Don’t let mayhem.....
True. But a lot of truckers use GPS and a so called short cut in my area. Each and every time it's used it leaves them on an impossible inclined hard right hand turn with the road angled left. Each time the trailers bottom out trying to make that turn. Companies it seems insist they follow GPS routes. I finally called the state and got them to post signs prohibiting trucks from using that short cut.
I also remember that for years the road I live on {actually a Lane and named such which should have given them a clue} was shown on mapquest as being a through road to the road over the ridge from me. Most of all I learned never use on line map directions. They usually only tell you the shortest distance which can mean a highway through town posted 35 MPH rather than the fastest way.
I always wanted to put some rims only on my VW and drive on the green line from Brookline down under into Boston and have some friends waiting on the platform for a passenger exchange.
The first question out of the first cop on the scene was...”So, when did you dye your hair red?
The company was located down a dirt road along a railroad track and the parking lot was a huge mud puddle. Taking a pick up in is one thing. Taking a 72000 pound rig is another.
BTW the two places I hated taking loads into was anywhere coastal New Jersey or within a 50 mile radius of NYC. No delivery up there is ever easy nor were instructions to delivery point ever accurate.
I remember one afternoon taking out a TV cable for an entire street. National Electrical Code specifies them to be much higher than 13' 9" over any street.
You can't go wrong with the classics.
South Attleboro - says it all.
We use GPS in the Ambulance every day, and it is right about 8 times out of 10. Usually gets you in the right neighborhood though.
I once saw a station wagon going down the tracks between D.C. and Baltimore at about 40 to 50 mph. It had little flange wheels on the front inside the tires, and there were some type of rollers on the rear wheels pushing it along.
I’ve been thinking about getting a job using my CDL after 0bama gets unelected. The best idea seems to be becoming part of a custom gain cutting crew so I don’t hardly ever have to drive downtown in some large city.
grain.
Plus you have the 911 map and cross streets given if you dispatch like most systems I've listened too. The only ones beside LEO or emergency services who can find my house easilly usually are UPS and FED EX because the drivers know the area real well. You know you're hard to find when your house won't even show up on any ariel or Google Earth photo programs LOL.
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