DarkRubiTJ
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Ya can't fix stupid!
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Rick Jay
Greater Springfield area, MA
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OK...he didn't even try to drive under the highest part of the bridge either. Geeze, in my rig, even if I KNOW I have a couple of feet of clearance, I try to stay in the center lanes...just in case.
And how could he NOT see the sign?...It's right above the smashed bus! LOL 
I agree with DarkRubiTJ..."Ya can't fix stupid!"
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Popsie
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BEVAR wrote:My Garmin 530 does that all the time. No matter what I set it to...bus, truck...what ever...it will try to run me either into a low overpass or down a road I really can't fit down.
Beave I've read that all the bus, truck, motorcycle setting does is change the vehicle look in the display - it has nothing to do with routing.
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azbrewer
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The best quote from the article is "Stoplights aren't in our databases, either, but you're still expected to stop for stoplights."
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D & M
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GPS sytems are no diffenrent from maps - just fancier. It's just a tool. You need to research your route so you don't end up like the bus.
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92DakotaHD
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mikehart92 wrote:This is like setting the cruise then getting up to go to the bathroom and saying it was the cruise controls fault you crashed.
Mike
Someone did that in an RV. Look up the Stella awards, he got a settlement and a new RV.
Some lady drove her car into a head-on collision with a train becaues of her GPS. She got out but the car is dead.
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Southwind85
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Physics overrules signs on bridges.
Signs on bridges overrrule numbers on maps
GPS database numbers are probably derived from map numbers IF those numbers were ever looked up in the first place.
Not reading the sign on bridges before proceeding under bridges is almost always directly related to a software error in the device that connects the steering wheel to the seat cushion.
"If this guy was a professional driver, he should have known his bus was 12 feet high and couldn't fit into a 9-foot box,"
IMHO: Case closed right there.
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QCMan
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Not only was he not watching the signs, but he was probably looking at the arch of the bridge at about eye level! I don't know about anybody else, but if I was driving and I was eye level to an obstruction and had a few more feet of rig over me I would do everything I could to stop first. As the dispatcher always says, "Backing and overhead collisions are ALWAYS the driver's fault".
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mike54
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mikehart92 wrote:This is like setting the cruise then getting up to go to the bathroom and saying it was the cruise controls fault you crashed.
Mike
yea ya can I use a bungee cord from the steering wheel to the brake pedal 
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