This is what happens when we rely 100% on technology

**Sarmatian** · 01-15-2013, 10:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-disaster.html

Women used car navigation to get to train station in Brussels, some 50km trip. She ended up in Zagreb, some 1700km away

Or maybe it's not technology, it's female drivers...

**Husar** · 01-15-2013, 10:05

I read about it and I think she need medical help.
It's funny at first but my guess is she has some disorder or illness due to her age.

**Idaho** · 01-15-2013, 15:42

We've had loads of these stories. Last time it was a truck driver going to the wrong Gibraltar.

**Sarmatian** · 01-15-2013, 17:20

But how the hell do you not notice that a half an hour trip is suddenly taking one, two, three and more hours. Aren't women supposed to be cool with asking for directions?

I don't even want to start on actually looking at freakin' traffic signs.

**Fragony** · 01-15-2013, 17:39

Originally Posted by Husar

I read about it and I think she need medical help.
It's funny at first but my guess is she has some disorder or illness due to her age.

Funny at first? It's absolutely hilarious

@samartarian, it takes 10 hours before you are in Spain from Dutchland, she must have been driving a little bit longer

**Hooahguy** · 01-15-2013, 17:47

Something like this sort of happened to me last year. I was taking a bus from Jerusalem to Bet Shemesh, fell asleep, found myself in Tel Aviv.

Not bad though, stayed at a hotel and grabbed a bus back the next afternoon because hey, Tel Aviv.

**Sarmatian** · 01-15-2013, 18:47

Originally Posted by Fragony

Funny at first? It's absolutely hilarious

@samartarian, it takes 10 hours before you are in Spain from Dutchland, she must have been driving a little bit longer

Yeah, I know, but I willing to accept she wasn't sure after an hour drive, like maybe the nav took her around or something, but when she noticed signs in German, why didn't she turn back?

This is really an example of people not using common sense and relying 100% on technology. Maybe she has a disorder, but then why she's allowed to drive?

**Sir Moody** · 01-15-2013, 19:35

it sounds like she has a short term memory issue which isn't uncommon with people her age - over here that doesn't prevent someone from driving ...

there was a case recently of a elderly man who got "lost" on the m25 for 30 hours... (for those who haven't visited the UK the m25 basically surrounds London in a big circle - the poor man simply kept going round and round in circuits stopping for naps/food)

basically their brains just get "distracted" and they don't notice things... in this case at least she had a satnav directing her somewhere and wasn't just driving in circles...

**Kralizec** · 01-15-2013, 20:13

Tellos alsoposted this in the NotW thread.

**Sarmatian** · 01-15-2013, 23:11

Originally Posted by Sir Moody

it sounds like she has a short term memory issue which isn't uncommon with people her age - over here that doesn't prevent someone from driving ...

there was a case recently of a elderly man who got "lost" on the m25 for 30 hours... (for those who haven't visited the UK the m25 basically surrounds London in a big circle - the poor man simply kept going round and round in circuits stopping for naps/food)

basically their brains just get "distracted" and they don't notice things... in this case at least she had a satnav directing her somewhere and wasn't just driving in circles...

I don't understand how people like that are allowed to keep their license. That's extremely dangerous, not just to themselves but to everyone else in traffic.