{"id":383,"date":"2006-10-10T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T02:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/gadgets-tools\/driver-follows-gps-directions-and-crashes-car\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:16:06","slug":"driver-follows-gps-directions-and-crashes-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/gadgets-tools\/driver-follows-gps-directions-and-crashes-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Follows GPS Directions and Crashes Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget is reporting on a German driver, who was so single-mindedly focused on the directions from his GPS navigation system that he forgot to pay attention to numerous road construction signs and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson &#8212; &#8220;Technology is a great tool, but don&#8217;t let it do your thinking for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/10\/10\/motorist-has-faith-in-gps-drives-into-sandpile\/\">Motorist has faith in GPS, drives into sandpile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget is reporting on a German driver, who was so single-mindedly focused on the directions from his GPS navigation system that he forgot to pay attention to numerous road construction signs and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand. Lesson &#8212; &#8220;Technology is a great tool, but don&#8217;t let it do your thinking for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/gadgets-tools\/driver-follows-gps-directions-and-crashes-car\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Driver Follows GPS Directions and Crashes Car<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6232,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/6232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}