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Why do people blindly follow the GPS route...even when it takes them into danger?

Asked by tyrantxseries (4722points) December 30th, 2009

Motorists stranded for three days in heavy snow after relying solely on car’s navigation system

A 20-year-old student’s car was wrecked by a train after she followed her sat nav system onto a railway track.

These are just two of the hundreds of stories of people turning off common sense when they turn on the GPS, what makes these people follow the magic box’s directions so faithfully?

Do they think the lady in the box will be angry with them if they don’t do what she says?

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