Funny GPS Stories

lukey · 28-11-2007, 02:54 PM

I was wondering if anyone has any funny stories about their GPSs sending them strange places as I've heard quite a few around from people.

Mine would have to be getting directions home from the beach and it lead me down some little beachside road, across a bridge barely small enough for a car and then told me to drive across a football field.

Anyone got any funny ones to share?

TZENU · 28-11-2007, 02:59 PM

My fiancee's one!

As i began to climb the Westgate Bridge (outbound) it told me to turn right 50 metres!!! then at the very top it told me to turn right now!!..

But me being the smart human that i am i chose to ignore

Falcon_Phill · 28-11-2007, 03:03 PM

I was at Sydney airport with an old Q4 2006 map. It asked me to drive into a wall then turn left.

vztrt · 28-11-2007, 03:06 PM

My mates one told him to drive off a bridge...uses whereis!!

Same GPS said that we were driving in a paddock...gotta photo of it somewhere.

Virgil83 · 28-11-2007, 03:33 PM

I went on a business trip to Bundaberg from Brissy last year, using the ol' Navman icn510, without the latest updates (at the time)... anyway I had the option to use unsealed roads ticked in the settings, and found myself driving through a canefield just outside of Bundy.

According to the GPS there was a road straight through the middle of these rows of cane, but of course their wasn't. You can imagine my embarrassment when the farmer drove up and immediately said "you've got one of those bloody GPS thingys, don't ya? I get a couple of you blokes a week try and streamroll straight through my damn canefield!"

Very embarrassing indeed, turns out the road used to exist there but hasn't in years!

2002xr6 · 28-11-2007, 03:45 PM

a mate had a big night one night and found himself in a lake using a gps

sarrge2001 · 28-11-2007, 04:29 PM

In a hire car in Canberra - entered "Canberra airport", followed the directions and when i was parked outside a house in a leafy suburb, it told me I was at my destination. Lucky we had plenty of time and Canberra isn't that big!

Gotta love people that play with hire car GPS - probably the same ones that set the alarm clocks in a motel for 4am

S3SR · 28-11-2007, 04:34 PM

mates one told him to turn left on a bridge ... 05 model tom tom one i think it was

i wouldnt mind knowing what the other ones are

garmins seem to be the most accurate though that i have used

kerrcdc · 28-11-2007, 04:43 PM

simple ones for me, a few times the TomTom has suggested I enter a freeway via an entry road that was never built.

Sourbastard · 28-11-2007, 04:58 PM

my GPS told me i was doing 400+ kph while I was parked in my carport with the engine off.

Bax · 28-11-2007, 05:17 PM

I always laugh when I hear:

"In 200 metres, go straight ahead" "Go straight ahead, now"

Apart from that we had some trouble with Navman wanting us to drive through the Brisbane inner city bypass. We had some construction works telling us you can't drive through here. We just told him to blame navman, angry .

Bent8 · 28-11-2007, 07:10 PM

Here's a funny one from last year...

An 80-year-old German motorist has obediently followed his navigation system all the way into a huge pile of sand, abrubtly bringing his trip to an end.

The motorist ignored a motorway "closed for construction" sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road, police have said.

"The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site," a police spokeswoman has said.

"His trip finally ended when he wound up crashing into a pile of sand," she added.

The driver and his wife escaped uninjured from the collision, which occurred on a motorway near Hamburg.

asusdragon · 28-11-2007, 07:18 PM

heard heaps of these like ppl doing excatly as the GPS say and going over a grassed hill in to a river/lake.
but was talking to one of the installer today bout his, the other day he was trying it out and selected home going to quickest route but instead of going round busselton with no traffic lights roundabouts etc etc it told him to go straight though. we are thinking it wanted to go check out all the school leavers down there.

StealthAu · 28-11-2007, 07:30 PM

Up in Bundy mine kept telling me to drive off the side of a bridge. Here in Brisbane, just got here and didn't know were anything was, used the Points Of Intrest function to find a shopping centre I had to go to. Followed the dirrections, to an area where it was guiding me around the same block, no shop there, but at every intersection it would tell me to turn left. Drove away from the area and it guided me back to continue doing laps of one block.