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Aug 12th, 2017, 21:23 | #1 |
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Sat nav blunder
This is amazing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_...at-nav-blunder
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Aug 12th, 2017, 23:03 | #2 |
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Thick headed truck driver, can't say anything else really
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Aug 13th, 2017, 10:40 | #3 |
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There really is no excuse for a so called 'professional' driver to end up in such a mess.
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Aug 13th, 2017, 11:10 | #4 |
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He might no longer be a 'professional' driver !
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Aug 13th, 2017, 15:58 | #5 |
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By law he must have a Driver CPC - Certificate of Professional Competence, but sitting in a classroom for five seven hour sessions obviously didn't equip him for this. I frequently despair of the industry I work in as this sort of thing is getting more common, but then if all the media reporting is in the nature of 'truck drivers are idiots/polluters/homicidal maniacs etc', why would any halfway competent human being want to be a truck driver?
But we can all look forward to driver-less vehicles without stupid drivers, and you know the old saying 'To err is human, to mess it up completely you'll need a computer'.
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Aug 13th, 2017, 22:08 | #6 |
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It's not all the fault of Sat Navs.
Circa late 1980s, I used to spend my evenings in a pub by a mini roundabout. One of exits led through a housing estate to shortcut to the motorway, but you had to navigate through a physical width restriction, big bollardy things about 6 foot apart, 100 yds up the road. Within that 100yds parking spaces alternated, one side of the road then another, also as a deterrent to big vehicles. The width restriction was clearly sign posted but even so, about once a week, the locals would notice a large articulated lorry heading up the road. We'd speculate how long it would take, usually a good half hour or more, before the driver got to the bollards and managed to reverse all the way back again, snaking between all the parked cars. To their credit, they generally had unbelievably good reversing skills, long predating cameras and other driver assists. |
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