Gee that's so stoopid.. no wait a minute.. its Britain!
(from the it-wasn't-my-fault dept)

I just came across this entry on techdirt which I thought was absolutely hilarious! The very thought of British people and technology is laughable (I taught undergraduate law for about 2 years and was completely astonished at the fact that university students still submitted hand-written essays.. apparently because they didn't know how to use Microsoft Word!). Also I remember the amusement that watching how one of the Birmingham University representatives on visit to Singapore struggled with the ezlink card at the MRT gantries (She couldn't figure out how it could be that you didn't have to put your card into the machine to make it work). So the following shouldn't really have come at a surprise to me.

According to this blog entry, there is a growing trend in the UK of people suspending their common sense when they get in a car and turn on GPS navigation units (the problem is that you kind of have to have common sense in the first place! When it comes to them, I'm not quite sure...). There have been cases of people driving off cliffs and through flooded roads and taking detours that span half of England, apparently following the instructions of their navigation units. Things have gotten so bad that authorities have even resorted to put up "ignore your sat nav" road signs in some places.

Recently a woman (incidentally a Birmingham University student) blamed her GPS navigation unit for her car being hit by a train. She said the device led her "right into the path of a speeding train"! Maybe this is conclusive proof that women (well, ok.. Some women) shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel of a car!