This is what happens when we rely 100% on technology

[Sarmatian]

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]

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]

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

[Sarmatian]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Tellos alsoposted this in the NotW thread.

[Sarmatian]

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.

[Sir Moody]

not really

When I say they get distracted it isn't in a awareness sense - its in a mental sense

I had a friend in school who lived with his Grandmother (his parents worked in France) and she used to "ferry" us around

Her driving was perfect (probably better than mine is now...) but you would be driving along and she would suddenly say "now where are we going?"

We used to program the satnav even for the journeys we used to go on regularly - sometimes it would be all fine and she wouldn't need it but sometimes it was the only way to remind her

really the only person they are a danger to is themselves when they get utterly lost - long term memory is fine so (as long as they were good drivers to begin with) they are no more dangerous than any other elderly driver

[drone]

Google "death by GPS". There have been several times when my GPS has tried to kill me.

[Shaka_Khan]

This is why I study the directions via the computer before I drive to places that I've never been to before. In fact, I still don't use a GPS because I don't need it. I can remember the way. It's safer than looking at the GPS while driving. My coworker used a GPS via his phone when I drove to meet our client. There were a few times when it made us do the wrong turns.

[lars573]

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.

Driving with my 94 year old grand father practically qualifies as an extreme sport. But let me ask you this: Does Serbia require a retesting of drivers at regular intervals to keep a license? As I know of no nation that actually does. All that's required is paying the fees to renew it every 5 years. Unless you screw up enough to warrant a retest. Which many over 80 have a good chance of failing.

[InsaneApache]

Driving with my 94 year old grand father practically qualifies as an extreme sport. But let me ask you this: Does Serbia require a retesting of drivers at regular intervals to keep a license? As I know of no nation that actually does. All that's required is paying the fees to renew it every 5 years. Unless you screw up enough to warrant a retest. Which many over 80 have a good chance of failing.

In the UK after you get to 70 you have to reapply for your licence every 3 years. AFAIK

[drone]

In Virginia, if you renew your license and have points on your record, you have to take the written test over again.

[Fragony]

Driving with my 94 year old grand father practically qualifies as an extreme sport. But let me ask you this: Does Serbia require a retesting of drivers at regular intervals to keep a license? As I know of no nation that actually does. All that's required is paying the fees to renew it every 5 years. Unless you screw up enough to warrant a retest. Which many over 80 have a good chance of failing.

I believe old people are required to do a checkup here. Not a bad idea because with their senile egoism they are dangerous. My aunt used to drive 40 on the speedway because 'everything didn't had to go for an old woman like her'. She died of old age, small miracle. Friend at the police says that almost every time they have to deal with a senior they are drunk and expect special treatment. Stop this terrorism. In the supermarket grannies will just skip lines 'oh hihi', and another friend who works as security in a supermarket claims 90% of thieves are grannies. This has got to stop.

[Sarmatian]

Driving with my 94 year old grand father practically qualifies as an extreme sport. But let me ask you this: Does Serbia require a retesting of drivers at regular intervals to keep a license? As I know of no nation that actually does. All that's required is paying the fees to renew it every 5 years. Unless you screw up enough to warrant a retest. Which many over 80 have a good chance of failing.

If you have a 100% clean bill of health, you get your drivers license for a 10 years period. If there are health issues relating to driving (eyesight or something) it's 5 years. After a certain age, 65 or something it's 3 and later 1 year, possibly requiring a doctor's opinion.