Uber Driver Staircase Fail and 3 More Stupid Car Accidents Caused by Google Maps & GPS
Today one more Uber fail was revealed when the vehicle got stuck on the pedestrian staircase due to the map app.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the rare case when cars got in troubles caused by GPS and Google Maps.
Uber app
Uber driver followed his Uber app instructions and got stuck on the pedestrian staircase in San Francisco.
Fred, who has driven with Uber for less than a year, said he believed Safeway needed to make changes to its parking lot so that this didn’t happen again.
A San Francisco Uber is stuck on stairs after driving down a pedestrian walkway outside https://t.co/GHJKK1W2RZ pic.twitter.com/Pe3WWYRzwA
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 26, 2018
Moreton Bay trip
It can be complicated to drive a car in unfamiliar territory.
One case happened in March of 2012, a group of Tokyo students in Australia who ignored common sense and followed the counter-intuitive instructions on their GPS.
They ended in the Moreton Bay.
Student Yuzu Noda said the GPS “…told us we could drive down there. It kept saying it would navigate us to a road. We got stuck… There’s lots of mud.”
Source: Imgur
Into swamp
In June 2011, three women driving a rented Mercedes SUV near Seattle missed a turn and their navigator rerouted them down a large boat launch, these Mensa candidates simply shrugged and hit the gas.
They cruised all the way into the Mercer Slough, where the car became submerged in murky water.
The women were okay. Quoth one of the rescuers on scene: “I don’t know why they wouldn’t question driving into a puddle that doesn’t seem to end…”
Didn’t notice the bridge
In April of 2008, a bus driver responsible for a high school girls softball team ignored the basic laws of math, his bus driver training, and all common sense when he plowed the bus into – and under – a bridge in the Washington Park Arboretum.
The bust was 12 feet high. The very old pedestrian foot bridge was 9 feet high, and flashing lights and yellow signs posted on its path said as much – but the GPS didn’t knew that and directed the vehicle there.
Source: Reddit
See also:
- Uber Sells its Southeast Asian Part to Grab And Loses $4.5B
- The Biggest Uber Fails in 2017
- FATAL Crash for Uber: It Stops Testing Self-Driving Cars in US after Hitting 49-Year-Old Woman to Death
