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.
“My maps are made from aerial photographs.”
Why?
Beau owns a VERY OLD (2000?) Lexis - it belonged to his deceased wife. It’s currently in the shop because he’s FINALLY going to sell it. He’s hated that car since she bought it, and he left it in the driveway so he could kick it every time he went past, LOL!
Anyhow - he never updated the GPS, so we’d be driving somewhere and suddenly we’d be at the end of the Earth!
Endlessly amusing. (Luckily, we can both still read maps.)
That is what the brain is used for. Let me see... I just crossed Lakefront and I'm heading south on bridge street. Oh, lookie here! We have to be right HERE! That means the next road is Fairmont, where we turn left.
That is far more reliable than the maps used by cheapie GPS gadgets.
“Paper maps don’t tell you where you are.”
Do you have to work hard at being a complete jerk or do you come by it naturally? Actually, if one knows how to read a map they can indeed tell you where you are. Used in conjunction with a mysterious device called a “compass” you can pretty much find your way anywhere on the planet.
“I just use my smart phone.”
That’s fine until the batteries run out. Then you have an expensive paperweight.
But you do you. Lord knows someone has to.
I’m just glad it’s not me.
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Ask the USGS. Those topos have it nailed. I use city maps when not in the country. The GPS in my iPhone has taken me many times to where the intended destination was not located. The miss is usually five miles or so.
GPS is useful, but it’s no substitute for good old-fashioned thinking.
Like the time I was using GPS to take me to a certain store. I came to a T intersection. I could see the store off to my right, but the GPS wanted me to turn left.
I turned right.
“That is what the brain is used for. Let me see...”
You have never taken a wrong turn or gotten off on a wrong exit?
Nav systems will reroute you in seconds.
“than the maps used by cheapie GPS gadgets.”
LOL!
Every summer. I four wheel from the utah/nevada border north of 80 near the idaho border across the state of Nevada on old mining trails crossing a dozen mountain ranges west until I hit California. No maps, no GPS.
A couple weeks ago I drove from chattanooga to myrtle beach across the smokys on random rural roads as I simply made my way east until I hit the ocean which I then followed south.
I don’t need no stinkin’ maps. I could get to any major city in america from here without one, or even as far south as Santiago, Chile
Have you always had 100% success with a GPS? So far, no one I know will make that claim.
I'm on old Ranger. Rangers never get lost. We get "terrain bewilderment".
“Do you have to work hard at being a complete jerk or do you come by it naturally? Actually, if one knows how to read a map they can indeed tell you where you are. Used in conjunction with a mysterious device called a “compass” you can pretty much find your way anywhere on the planet.”
And you won’t find out that the road is closed until you get there.
If you just have to have a GPS, stay away from the ones that work on phones. Use a top-of-the-line Garmon or equivalent.
The street in front of our house takes a 90 degree left onto a dead-end road. They are two differently named streets. Not long ago, Google Maps mysteriously renamed the left-turn road to the same name as the road in front of our house.
But Apple Maps shows them correctly with two different names.
Weird.
I don’t have it (of course-—I’m a Luddite who hates technology).
Had to endure riding with relatives miles and miles out of our way one day while they obediently did what they were told. I told them to start again and it can’t be right.
I love paper maps
no GPS for me
“You have reached your—— somewhat soggy—— destination.
Attach underwater breathing apparatus and take appropriate actions in your electric vehicle to prevent shocks.”
“Oh, no doubt the GPS can be useful. On the other hand, they are sometimes very wrong. I always do a “map reconnaissance” before I go on a trip. That way I can immediately react to a GPS mistake.”
Nav systems give you an automatic “map reconnaissance” view. They also give you multiple routes you can select from.
The majority of drivers, including truckers, can’t navigate without GPS. It’s because they don’t or won’t learn to read maps.
I grew on a farm, and learned to know from the sun, time and direction (during daylight without thick overcast), and at night (without overcast).
I learned to read maps and aeronautical charts as a pre-teen. I’m 68, and maps still fascinate me.
I found an error on a Google map also.
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“If you just have to have a GPS, stay away from the ones that work on phones. Use a top-of-the-line Garmon or equivalent.”
They all use the same satellite signals.
“That’s fine until the batteries run out. Then you have an expensive paperweight.”
I have a small battery bank. I am good for days.
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