Satellite navigation system
Nov 3 2007, Harshpaul

A Czech lorry driver was led off-course by his sat-nav system and got his HGV stuck in a narrow country lane in Ivybridge, UK. The driver was on his way to pick up a consignment of TVs but total and blind reliance on the navigation system got him...

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