Blame Your Mistakes on Technology

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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Re:Obligatory

[zcat_NZ]

Although they don't seem to take into account the quite probable delays caused by hypothermia, shark attack, or drowning due the physical impossibility of swimming for a month solid..

Re:The trouble with your argument is

[Viol8]

"that they wouldn't pay for cosmetic/reconstructive surgery on that particular woman, "

Err, sorry , am I missing something - why exactly should they pay for surgery for this moron? Would you expect Ford for example to pay damages to someone if they didn't realise that driving while reading a paper was dangerous and they crashed and then the moron tries to blame it on the car? IMO McDonalds should have countersued *her* for wasting their time and money in court.