Driver follows GPS and ends up on train tracks

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Viknesh Vijayenthiran October 23rd, 2006

By Viknesh Vijayenthiran Author October 23rd, 2006

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December 31st, 1969 A 64 year old German man accidentally drove his car, a brand new BMW 5-series equipped with a GPS system, directly onto a train track because he couldn’t understand the navigation correctly. After initially making it onto the track, the driver continued on until he reached a train station before realizing he had made a mistake, at which point he came to a complete stop. This follows news of another German man, aged 80, who followed his navigation system into a huge pile of sand. Ignoring the “closed for construction” sign the driver crashed his Mercedes into the sand on a motorway near Hamburg.

Driver follows GPS and ends up on train tracks

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A 64 year old German man accidentally drove his car, a brand new BMW 5-series equipped with a GPS system, directly onto a train track because he couldn’t understand the navigation correctly. After initially making it onto the track, the driver continued on until he reached a train station before realizing he had made a mistake, at which point he came to a complete stop.

This follows news of another German man, aged 80, who followed his navigation system into a huge pile of sand. Ignoring the “closed for construction” sign the driver crashed his Mercedes into the sand on a motorway near Hamburg.

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