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Lost in a digital world of make believe, the dangers of being over-reliant on technology:

Pensioners in sat-nav mystery tour
By Richard Savill

(Filed: 26/08/2006)

Modern technology has failed a group of pensioners who were stranded for almost four hours when a satellite navigation system directed their coach down an impassable country lane.


The group of 30 pensioners, some of them in wheelchairs, missed out on a pub lunch after their coach became stuck between steep grass banks on a sharp bend.

A farmer gave them tea and biscuits and allowed them to use his lavatory as the driver tried to find a way out of the single-track lane.

Eventually the only solution was to drive the coach across three recently harvested fields to rejoin the main road.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/26/nroute26.xml

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