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Blame Your Mistakes on Technology

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pebkac-errors dept.

Techdirt has an quick look at how it is becoming much more common for people to blame their mistakes on technology. "There are people driving off cliffs and through flooded roads and taking detours that span half of England, apparently at the behest of their navigation units. Things got so bad in one place that authorities even had to put up "ignore your sat nav" signs. Now, a woman's car got hit by a train, and for some reason, she's blaming a GPS navigation unit."

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  1. personal responsibility by froggero1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's much easier to blame someone/something else than take personal responsibility for your actions. Is this really a surprise to anyone?

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    1. Re:personal responsibility by Blue+Stone · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I think it's just the Milgram's Experiment effect in operation; an authority telling a person what to do, and that person submitting to that percieved authrority, even in defiance of their own eyes, ears and conscience, and doing what they're told.

      In this case the percieved authority is a little electronic box.

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  2. Common Sense by ATAMAH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Technology is a supplement, it is not meant to replace common sense.