railroad-crossing

We have sug­gest­ed before (The Ten Habits of High­ly Effec­tive Brains)…

“Don’t Out­source Your Brain. Not to media per­son­al­i­ties, not to politi­cians, not to your smart neigh­bour… Make your own deci­sions, and mis­takes. And learn from them. That way, you are train­ing your brain, not your neighbour’s.”

Well, let me add now: Don’t Out­source Your Brain to Your GPS sys­tem, either…

Read arti­cle: here (via Drudge)

- “A 32-year-old Cal­i­forn­ian whose rental car got smashed by a Metro-North train last night was issued a minor sum­mons for caus­ing the fiery crash that strand­ed rail­road com­muters for hours.”

- “Bo Bai, a com­put­er tech­ni­cian from Sun­ny­vale who said he was mere­ly trust­ing his car’s glob­al posi­tion­ing sys­tem when he steered onto the tracks, was cit­ed for obstruct­ing a rail­road cross­ing, offi­cials said this afternoon.”

For­tu­nate­ly, the dri­ver was safe, and there were no injuries. The arti­cle deserves read­ing…here.