A mistake in satellite navigation software is causing chaos in the Yorkshire Dales
Sat-nav sends drivers down Crackpot route
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05 Apr 2006, Matt Chapman , V3
A mistake in satellite navigation software is sending drivers down a route in the town of Crackpot in North Yorkshire that has a 100ft cliff on one side.
The technology is supposed to offer drivers the quickest route to Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, but the unclassified path it suggests is only suitable for 4x4 vehicles.
Locals have noticed that the route has become more popular recently, and drivers are blaming their sat-nav systems for leading them to the road.
However, motorists have to ignore a sign warning that the route is a no-through road, and must open a farm gate to follow the track.
A farm owner whose land is at the start of the route said that extra warnings needed to be put up to deter normal vehicles.
"Besides anything else it is a very steep road and it's no joke," Steven Porter of Summer Lodge Farm told The Daily Telegraph. "It can only be a matter of time before someone goes over the edge of that drop."
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Do you agree?
sat nav nuts
If these drivers a so stupid as to believe everthing their toys tell them then that is there own fault.maybe we should give these sat navs to certain politicions in the hope they would get lost,but we could not be so lucky
Posted by Alan Stanley Williams, 06 Apr 2006
Crowded Roads Soloution...!
This is the answer!
The roads in britain are getting too crowded,
so let people use these devices and if it means they plumet to their death by listening to a peice of plastic telling them that it is ok to drive down a cliff face then so be it!
This will filterr out all the drivers that should be on the road from those that got their licsence by some miricle but cant actually drive !
Posted by Unnoficial future king of England, 27 Dec 2007