When satnav and stupidity mix, the results are not pretty

Davey Winder
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 21:15

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At number two is the Sydney motorist who turned right when told to so. He apparently did not realise that he was exiting the highway early and driving into a building site. You might have thought that reality would have dawned as he drove up some stairs and crashed into the builders toilet though.

But there can be no doubting the current king of satnav stupidity. That honour has to go to Syrian lorry driver Necdet Bakimci who somehow managed to haul his 32 tonne lorry complete with its load of luxury cars from Turkey to Gibraltar via a whopping 1600 mile detour. It seems his satnav thought that Coral Road in Gibraltar, off the Spanish coast, was actually part of the UK mainland. Easy mistake to make when you are a GPS satellite navigation device, not. But at what point did the lorry driver decide he was going to just do as he was told, rather than question the fact that he was driving more than a thousand miles in the wrong direction? Stupid, stupid, stupid...