Like this imbecile who turns directly onto a railroad track at the unit's command and gets stuck on the tracks because the GPS told him to do it. The street was actually right after the tracks, so it looks like in reality the GPS was actually smarter than the dumb a** driving the car.
There's no doubt some ambulance chaser is ready willing and able to take this case on for some what they hope will be easy cash. It's always someone or something else's fault nowadays in the day of no personal responsibility.
Driver cited in Bedford train-car crash caused by GPS mishap:
"BEDFORD HILLS - A 32-year-old Californian whose rental car got smashed by a Metro-North train last night was issued a minor summons for causing the fiery crash that stranded railroad commuters for hours.
Bo Bai, a computer technician from Sunnyvale who said he was merely trusting his car's global positioning system when he steered onto the tracks, was cited for obstructing a railroad crossing, officials said this afternoon."The railroad's Harlem Division trains were back on schedule this morning after crews spent hours repairing more than 200 feet of the electrified "third" rail damaged by the crash, said Dan Brucker, Metro-North spokesman.
Bai, who has been working in Fishkill, was driving west on Green Lane around 7 p.m., and told Metropolitan Transportation Authority police the GPS system instructed him to turn right as he was crossing the tracks. He was headed for the Saw Mill River Parkway, just past the tracks.
He got stuck, tried unsuccessfully to reverse and finally abandoned the 2006 Ford Focus minutes before it was slammed by a northbound Metro-North Harlem Line train, MTA police said.
"As the car is driving over the tracks, the GPS system tells him to turn right, and he turns right onto the railroad tracks," said Brucker. "That's how it happened." continued
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