GPS System Navigates Man Toward Moving Train
This is when technology can seriously go wrong. According to an MSNBC report, a computer consultant on Wednesday rented a car equipped with a GPS system. It advised the man to turn right. When he did so, he ended up on train tracks with a train headed right toward him!
Fortunately, he escaped from the vehicle just in the nick of time, but the train, unable to stop, slammed into the car at 60 mph, Metro-North railroad spokesman Dan Brucker said Thursday. Consequently, the car was pushed more than 100 feet and approximately 500 passengers onboard were stranded for more than 2 hours while the damage was cleaned up. It’s reported that 250 feet of the track has been heavily damaged.
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