GPS Navigation Says At Next Left Go Jump or Sink in a Lake

by copythat

It's the ultimate "wrong turn" of wrong turns: That GPS voice may be soothing but a driving navigation system instead provides a sinking feeling. Three women end up driving on a boat launch -- making the next "left" a potentially fatal mistake that guides a Mercedes SUV into a Washington lake. The women were lucky to scramble out alive.

The women from Mexico were in town for a Costco convention -- using a GPS system at night while trying to navigate their way to a hotel, the Embassy Suites in Bellevue's Eastgate area. But instead of some overnight rest the trio ending up sinking a Mercedes SUV around midnight in a Washington lake.

Amazingly, all three were able to scramble out of the sinking car that still reflected lit tail lights as the vehicle sank.

Following GPS directions -- a navigation system which allegedly told the SUV's driver to take a "left" -- the woman was unaware of the danger posed by that turn: The driver was driving down a boat launch, headed straight into the Mercer Slough, when the GPS said to make a turn.

Directions for a left turn were bad, but it seems GPS directions right prior were more to blame: the turn simply made circumstances more immediate since the driver was about to hit the end of the boat launch any second.

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