A YOUNG MAN DRIVING A CAR WITH TWO OTHER passengers in Kansas City, Missouri, somehow didn’t see Big Red at 3:30 Sunday morning. Police say that he was fiddling with his GPS receiver while driving and breezed through a red light and smashed into the side of Engine 8 that was returning to quarters after a call.
The fire engine wasn’t too badly damaged, but the car…….
KCTV Ch. 5 filed this video report:
DESPITE GPS SYSTEMS’ LONG RECORD OF LEADING mind-numbed motorists over the edges of cliffs and onto dead-end roads, a woman from Massachusetts left her bag of common sense at home Monday when she drove to Maine to visit a friend. When she got lost, she set the GPS system in her Toyota to the address she wanted to head for and then started following the directions.
If you are curious about how she ended up stuck on a snowmobile trail that isn’t wide enough for a car in the first place, read the tale of technology in the Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal HERE.
“I pulled up and couldn’t believe she went in there,” Sheriff’s Deputy William Nelson said of the snowmobile trail where he found Corderro later that night. “It goes from a crappy dirt road that is all ice to a snowmobile trail that could probably fit two snowmobiles.”
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, A MAN WHO WAS using a storm drain for a shortcut got lost in the darkness and needed help. The Austin American-Statesman tells how he got out:
The Austin Fire Department said emergency workers on Wednesday rescued a man who was lost in a storm drain system near 45th and Duval streets for an unknown amount of time. His general location was pinpointed by Fire Department call-takers using cell phone GPS information, but then the man’s phone went dead, officials said. He was found about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
He had told 911 operators he was looking for a friend but later recanted the story. He told fire officials he was walking in the drain, became lost and called 911 when night fell. Officials said firefighters drove to the general area and found the man when they saw his arm sticking out of a gutter drain.
KXAN-TV has this video report:
GRADUALLY WE ARE LEARNING MORE WAYS that businesses are maximizing the usage of new digital devices to make their operations better. One of them that many of you learned about recently was publicised when a Russian freighter went missing in the Atlantic Ocean and it was quickly located by its GPS positioning signals.
It turns out that all ocean traffic now have these devices onboard which explains the shutting down of all those colorful lighthouses around the world. All navigation is done by satellite and computer now.
It was only natural that this information would eventually make its way onto a website where we can all play Titan of Industry and follow the merchant ships around the Seven Seas.
At the moment I took this screen capture, there were 11,190 ships being tracked.
Over on the left is the log of display symbols and some search boxes where you can enter a specific ship’s name or port. For more detail, you just zoom in on a location to see the activity in any specific area.
Start your ocean odyssey by CLICKING HERE on the Live Ships Map homepage.
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