Tourists following GPS drive rental car into Moreton Bay, Australia

[pokerfan]

Sometimes I think we're all just a little too plugged-in these days...

Yuzu Noda, 21, said she was listening to the GPS and "it told us we could drive down there. It kept saying it would navigate us to a road. We got stuck . . . there's lots of mud."

Yuzu and and her travel friends Tomonari Saeki, 22, and Keita Osada, 21, were all looking forward to a day trip to the island, but headed back to the Gold Coast courtesy of a lift from the RACQ tow truck driver who was called to the stranded car.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/travel-news/taking-the-most-direct-route-to-straddie-20120315-1v85m.html

[HappyMe]

1. Good grief!

[charlie and algernon]

2. how, I mean, how in the hell do they not look out their window beforehand?

Were they just staring at the GPS screen on their dash? Did they think a road would magically appear ouf the water just because the GPS told them to turn there?

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[pokerfan]

3. I don't know

but I have seen people walk into doors while staring at their phone.

[HappyMe]

5. lol!

And walk into fountains!

[csziggy]

16. Remember the girl who fell into an open manhole while texting?

Girl Falls Into Manhole While Texting, Parents Sue
By Charlie Sorrel
July 13, 2009

It’s hard to decide who are the biggest morons in this story: parents or daughter. 15 year-old Alexa Longueira was walking along Victory Boulevard in Staten Island when she fell into an open manhole.

Why didn’t she see it? You’re ahead of me here. She was too intent on tapping out a text message to notice the gaping gap in the sidewalk and just dropped straight on in. Idiotic, yes, but now Alexa’s parents are trying to blame someone else for their daughter’s stupidity while making a little money into the bargain. They’re suing the city.

<SNIP>

In this case, though, it appears that the girl isn’t so dumb. Here’s the erudite sentence she gave of the Department of Environmental Protection workmen’s apology after they helped her out of the hole: “They were just, like, ‘I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

And yes, her parents are also witty masters of the English language. The mother, Kim Longueira, speaking to MSNBC: “Oh my God, it was putrid. One of her sneakers is still down there”

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/girl-falls-into-manhole-while-texting-parents-sue/

[pokerfan]

17. Yikes

Here's a woman falling while texting on the evening news:

Situational awareness, people!

[jakeXT]

4. You can't place them everywhere

[RiffRandell]

6. Reminds me of a Family Guy aside.

Which I will not post, because it will be alerted on. Fucking hysterical, though.

[liberal N proud]

7. If the GPS said jump off a cliff, some people would follow the instructions

They are a guide to help you find things, they are not supposed to drive your car.

[pokerfan]

15. But the machine thinks we can make it!

[zbdent]

8. I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albequerque ...

[LeftinOH]

9. Maybe the Australian slang was too confusing:

"Up the ballyroo a mite, jerry a linger to the gobbo and head straight on."

[SwissTony]

10. That's confusing to me..and I'm Australian.

Maybe that's Kiwi-talk

[OriginalGeek]

13. Make up your mind!

Australian SwissTony!

[SwissTony]

14. I'm also Glaswegian!!!! Howz about dat???? nt

[OriginalGeek]

21. lol

that's awesome - that's how that is.

[Safetykitten]

11. Brain by WHAMO!

[demmiblue]

12. The machine knows!

[bluedigger]

18. Happens all too often.

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/death-gps-could-it-happen-you-125321

[Major Nikon]

19. Recalculating...

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Well, I understand their thinking..

I mean, that big boat made it, so why couldn't their car make it?