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RE: Distractions in the car



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of Phil Payne
>
> In message <36A7D321.5FA335FD@abraxis.com> Elliott Potter writes:
>
> > I think that a GPS system that could *talk* and tell you directions
> > would be useful...you program in starting and ending points when you get
> > in and it would talk you through.
>
> Like the incident in Germany a few weeks back where a BMW in-car
> navigation system talked the driver into the river Havel?
>
> Gotta update these things when the bridge is out.
>
> --
>  Phil Payne

According to this week's AutoWeek, the problem was more specific: It failed
to inform the driver that the "bridge" was a ferry...

Geoff