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Situational Awareness

The Daily Mirror reports on the case of a BMW driver whose SatNav nearly sent him off a cliff.

As a bonus they throw in ten memorable “SatNav disasters.”

(Horn honk to Warren)

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  1. Michael Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 11:46 am

    They put this big window right in the front of every car, to make it possible to see where you are going, but mostly people don’t seem to look out it. Apparently, some people really, truly, literally are not looking through the big window.

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