[OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

[Nic Roets]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:07 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 June 2010 09:52, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
>> Still, even if they breached the duty of care, the injured woman will still
>> need to establish that the breach was a cause of her injury.
>
> The only thing that is new in all this is pedestrian routing, people
> have been following incorrect satnav routes for ages and usually
> driving into places they shouldn't as a result, people seem to love to
> be told what to do:
>
> http://www.intology.com/science-technology/satnav-causes-300000-accidents-in-uk-each-year/

That's an interesting article. But the details are sketchy: 300,000
out of a total of how many ? Are there any controlled studies where
they establish cause and effect ? e.g. take away Satnav from some
drivers and see what happens, or insist that they use it and see what
happens.