On Wednesday October 6th a 25 year old women following GPS directions through Murray Marsh was mislead and drove straight into a waste deep marsh. The water filled her car immediately and she was forced to evacuate and stand on the top of her car. She called the police from her cell phone, the first attempt to find her was unsuccessful, the rescue crews asked the women to repeatedly honk her horn. Finally the rescue crews arrived and the firefighters had to put wet suits on to go and bring the women to safety.
In one of my earlier blogs I spoke about a megabus that crashed into a bridge because the driver was using a GPS. This new article supports my idea that GPS systems should be banned. In many cases GPS systems are great, such as in big residential and commercial areas, such as Toronto, but when the GPS system is trying to guide people through very marshy, and very un-tracked land, the GPS system could be mis-calculated or mis-read. Therefore leading people into bad situations. I believe that GPS systems should have a function where as when the person is moving, or the system is moving that it should lock down therefore no new additions to the route can be added until stopped. I also believe that if GPS systems are going to be used they should be marked and the road's should be placed in the right spot, therefore not allowing people to get lost. In this article there could have been many different factors that affected why she got lost it could have been dark, she could have been disoriented, but the main reason was the GPS.
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