{"id":296,"date":"2007-05-12T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:39:55","slug":"sat-nav-blamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/sat-nav-blamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat Nav Wrongly Blamed for Idiot Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well surprise, surprise, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/south_west\/6646331.stm\">Sat Nav is once more being blamed for the idiocy of a driver<\/a> who blindly follows it into a dangerous situation. This 20 year old student narrowly avoided being nominated for the Darwin Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Sat Nav is no different to a road atlas, both have map errors, but no-one hears of them being blamed for the driver deciding to follow a back lane across a railway level crossing, so why do people follow Sat Nav instructions without question? If the Sat Nav told you to turn left, half way across a bridge, would you comply?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just another example of &#8216;not my fault&#8217; attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well surprise, surprise, Sat Nav is once more being blamed for the idiocy of a driver who blindly follows it into a dangerous situation. This 20 year old student narrowly avoided being nominated for the Darwin Awards. Sat Nav is no different to a road atlas, both have map errors, but no-one hears of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,181,20],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-roads","tag-sat-nav","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}