Posted on 12/27/2022 4:28:24 PM PST by simpson96
Indianapolis residents saw a bizarre sight on Christmas and it had nothing to do with Santa or his reindeer.
Quite the opposite as the Indianapolis Fire Department revealed a 33 year old woman drove down an embankment and then started driving on a frozen canal. This appears to have gone on for a while as the department said she “continued north on the canal until she came to the dead end at 10th Street, where she turned around [and] headed south.”
Her luck eventually ran out as the vehicle broke through the ice and plunged into the water. The fire department said several bystanders jumped into action and assisted the woman, who waited in the lobby of a nearby hotel after escaping from the vehicle. She was then checked out by medics, before being transported to the hospital.
Needless to say, authorities had plenty of questions and she told firefighters her GPS took her onto the canal. While the frozen waterway does have a road-like look, there appears to have been more going on.
According to CBS 42 and Fox 59, the woman was arrested for drunk driving. There’s no immediate word on how intoxicated the woman was, but she was apparently clueless even after driving down the embankment and onto the canal. The scene shocked onlooker Mason Brauchla, who told the Fox affiliate “I couldn’t believe … the ice was even supporting their car for that long.” He went onto estimate the woman was driving approximately 30 mph.
Absolutely true, even in the city. And anyone who is wise to how city addresses work can tell after passing just a few addresses which cardinal direction they are headed. :)
“AND the advice that MATTERS to a billy big-rigger: low overpasses, bridges with weight limits, etc.”
Which does NOT matter to most drivers.
navigating by the sun is fun
you should try it some time
“GPS is OK as something to consult for an opinion. Do not trust that the CCP can not screw with it.”
No kidding, and I figure they have a file on every American, not just us subversives. Given their level of penetration in this country, their manpower, and their technological state, my real fear that they’ll simply pull the trigger and cripple this country...and then walk-in and tell us they’re the new bosses, and if we try to resist, then mass executions to get us back in order. After all mass killings is nothing new for that bunch.
“Don’t call me a liar...”
I didn’t. But looking at the first few, none were in AZ.
What is the police radio ten code for idiot driving on canal?
How would paper maps warned him?
————Your wiki-——————
North Carolina man dead after following GPS to destroyed bridge that dropped into water
“Absolutely true, even in the city. And anyone who is wise to how city addresses work can tell after passing just a few addresses which cardinal direction they are headed. :)”
My nav system gives me my cardinal direction and shows my position as I move.
It gives me the street name and the name of the street at the next intersection.
Sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes it’s fun to just pull on your chains.
It matters to the drivers that matter the most.
“I think a paper map offers more situational awareness. You can see proportion or relative distance. You can see beyond the next few roads. You can see options or escape routes.”
You can do all that with a GPS nav system. And you can zoom in on much closer detain than paper maps provide.
I use Android Auto which gives you a real aerial view of your surroundings.
“Bingo!”
And your DVD’s will be worthless.
Yeah Death Valley gets all the honors, it is a tourist attention getter. As if we don’t have hot deserts in Az...
We have even more GPS deaths over here. It is so common they don’t even report it anymore, especially in the southern half. They just go pick them up and haul their car without hoopla. We had three last summer within 30 miles of our rural location alone. I went with my tow buddy to get one of the cars out of the sand.
GPS can’t tell the difference from a sand wash and a road. And city people who trust it agree that a sand wash looks like a good smooth dirt road. Until their car won’t go forward or backwards anymore and they are stuck in 120 degree heat with no water, and no cell phone service.
Like I say... Happens all the time, A regular part of a normal summer here...
“It matters to the drivers that matter the most.”
And they use GPS nav systems!!!
I will enjoy my DVDs while it lasts.
BTW
You are persistant.
Are you a GPS sales person in your real life?
“GPS can’t tell the difference from a sand wash and a road. And city people who trust it agree that a sand wash looks like a good smooth dirt road. Until their car won’t go forward or backwards anymore and they are stuck in 120 degree heat with no water, and no cell phone service.”
What nonsense.
If the drive off the road, that is not the fault of their nav system.
“I will enjoy my DVDs while it lasts.”
Why don’t you use GPS while it lasts?
“Are you a GPS sales person in your real life?”
Retired nuclear engineer. Just having fun with all the anti-techs and their ridiculous reasons for not using tech to enhance their lives.
“My nav system gives me my cardinal direction and shows my position as I move.”
So does my nav system. I make note of “block number sequence” going WE and NS when I read my map. All I have to do is look at a few addresses to know which cardinal direction I am going. The address/block numbers going up or going down tells me.
I can’t understand how these Amish and Mennonite FReepers have access to the internet?
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