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It’s happened to just about all of us in the age of technology: at one point or another, our GPS malfunctions and gets us lost. When the satellite-enabled device makes a mistake, it usually just takes us down a dead end road or the wrong way on a one-way street.
But a GPS in Australia actually led three Japanese tourists into the Pacific Ocean!
In March of 2012, three young Japanese tourists wanted to end their summer sightseeing trip by driving from the coastal city of Brisbane to North Stradbroke Island. (For Americans, that’s like trying to drive from Los Angeles to Catalina Island.) At this point, one would think that the definition of the word “island” would have been sufficient to cause the college students to rethink their chosen course.
Nope.
So, about 1,500 feet into Moreton Bay, their tiny little Hyundai hatchback could no longer fight the waves, and it sunk in the infamous mangrove mud between the two land masses.
Asked how she could make such a mistake, Yuzu Noda, the 21-year-old driver, claimed she was merely following the directions the GPS gave her. “It told us we could drive down there. It kept saying it would navigate us to a road. We got stuck [because] there’s lots of mud.”
Yuzu and her two friends never made it Stradbroke Island, but at least they didn’t get hurt. They learned an important lesson that day: be very careful what/who you follow in life.
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Topics Illustrated Include:
Accident
College
Common Sense
Danger
Follow
Lost
Mistake
Student
Stupidity
Technology
Travel
(Resource cataloged by David R Smith)
