Interesting little article in the Sunday New York Times - or, as I call it, "The Sunday Times" - about GPS systems in cars surprising drivers with bad decisions:
If you use a navigation app, you probably have felt helpless anger when your stupid phone endangers your life, and the lives of all the drivers around you, to potentially shave a minute or two from your drive time. Or maybe it’s stuck you on an ugly freeway when a glorious, ocean-hugging alternative lies a few miles away. Or maybe it’s trapped you on a route with no four-way stops, ignoring a less stressful solution that doesn’t leave you worried about a car barreling out of nowhere.
When GPS systems for cars came out almost 20 years ago I had a brilliant idea for a horror movie called GraPeS, in which an evil GPS system (maybe its first driver died in the car?) leads drivers into perilous situations ("waaaaait a second, this doesn't look like a Wal-Mart-" BOOM! they drive off a cliff); this story above inspires me to get that ball rolling again...that's right people I am LOOKING FOR INVESTORS, PEOPLE!!!
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