Man using GPS drives in front of train

Started by Lil Me, Jan 04 08 06:42

Previous topic - Next topic

Lil Me

[font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"]EDFORD HILLS, N.Y. (AP) - A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things - but apparently not when a train is coming. A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.[/p]The driver had turned right, as the system advised, and the car somehow got stuck on the tracks at the crossing. He jumped out and tried to warn the engineer by waving. He got out of the way just before the train slammed into the car at 60 mph, Metro-North railroad spokesman Dan Brucker said Thursday.[/p]

[/p]Full Story:[/p][a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080104/D8TUP78G3.html"]http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080104/D8TUP78G3.html[/a]
[/p][/span][/span][/font][/font]  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein