I found this google map giggle on A View Up the Clyde
Ask Google Maps to get directions from New York to Glasgow and it tells you to swim 3000+ miles across the Atlantic!
At least no-one would seriously try to follow this route in their car.
Not so, the souls who slavishly follow the instructions of satellite navigation systems.
Examples of the predicaments caused include
- the motorists who drive close to a 100ft cliff near the village of Crackpot
- drivers attempting to cross a deep ford at Luckington
- traffic jams in hitherto quiet villages like Barrow Gurney
I love fords on roads like that
ReplyDeletethat's fords of the watery kind, not Fords of the car kind. . .
:-)
Crackpot, Luckington -- what gorgeous names for villages.
ReplyDeleteThe satellite system I have on my car also tells me not to obey instructions blindly, but to think a little for myself. People must have been complaining about problems.
ReplyDeleteBut I like to play with the satellite, especially if I'm not in a hurry. It permits me to find new roads and water towers I didn't know before.
Sorry, the link didn't come out as it should have
ReplyDeletehttp://hpyl.blogspot.com/2007/07/le-mouton.html