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Ambulance crew learns to be skeptical of GPS
December 4, 2006
Don't just blindly follow what the GPS receiver tells you to do!
Instead of driving eight miles northeast of London to Brentwood, the ambulance drove 200 miles northwest to the suburbs of Manchester before the drivers realized their blunder and turned around, The Times of London reports.
The total trip took more than eight hours.
The crew, which reportedly has become a laughing stock, "was relatively new to the job," a spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said. "Obviously they thought they were going to a hospital further afield."
How does the ambulance service plan to prevent this kind of thing happening in the future?
Drivers have been told to study their geography and learn to think for themselves.
Posted by Kathie on December 4, 2006 9:15 PM.
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