GPS introduced the German driver to the Swiss tree

    Situations when the car navigation system crashes and escorts the driver on a completely unplanned trip with an unpredictable ending happen regularly. However, not every such trip ends with a trip to a pedestrian crossing, knocking down several lights and relaxing in the branches of a cherry tree.
    The German driver was in a similar situation
    This is the route that the 37-year-old truck driver traveled from Germany to one of the Swiss plants. The man, obviously, didn’t know the route at all and therefore relied entirely on the prompts of the GPS navigator, who at one point safely brought the truck straight to the narrow sidewalk, since the driver did not notice a number of prohibition signs. A gentle female voice, bringing the prompts from the speaker of the GPS-navigator, apparently very much carried away the poor man. After a couple of hundred meters, when the pavement finally came to a standstill, the driver, sensing something was amiss, reversed and, knocking down two lampposts along the way and damaging the hedge, found his peace in the branches of a cherry tree. Only local police officers and a couple of people with chainsaws were able to get out of the car.

    The poor traveler was fined 650 Swiss francs (approximately 540 US dollars) and was recommended to update the firmware of the GPS navigator. But a copy of Google Maps, alas, was not handed.

    via PhysOrg

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