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....This is headline story in a US news paper:
*From the Boston Globe/boston.com*
Swedish tourists miss island due to GPS typo
July 28, 2009
ROME—Officials say a Swedish couple looking for the pristine waters of the popular island of Capri ended some 400 miles (660 kilometers) away in the northern industrial town of Carpi after misspelling the destination on their car's GPS.
Angelo Giovannini, a spokesman for the Carpi town hall, near Modena, said Tuesday the couple drove into the main square last week and asked the local tourist office how to reach Capri's famed Blue Grotto sea cave.
Giovannini said "we thought they might mean a restaurant. Capri is an island, they did not even wonder why they didn't cross any bridge or take any boat."
He said the couple, who were not identified, arrived from Venice and later set off to their planned destination at the other end of the Italian peninsula.
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What, me worry?
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You know it's a slow day at MacNN...
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It sure isn't slow for the spammers, ****ing vermin.
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It's like reading a map wrong. Put in the wrong info, go to the wrong place. People will always be dumber than the devices they use.
It's not the GPS's fault.
What gets me is this couple told someone and it made it into the news. Dumb move.
People have been getting on the wrong direction freeway for years. Now that they have a tool, it's the tools fault?
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My real point with this thread was
- You have average people from Sweden who's name isn't even given.
- Driving in some small town in Italy because of a GPS failure.
What do people in the US (perhaps anywhere too) care?
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