[Amusing] Truck drivers lured onto unpassable road by their GPSR

There was an item on Norwegian TV news tonight, about the increasing
problem of foreign truck drivers trying to navigate a wintry Norway
using their GPS receivers to guide them. And then they get lured onto
roads that are wildly inappropropriate for big trucks, particularly in
winter conditions: Narrow twisty roads climbing up one side of a
valley, going across some mountains and then descending into the next
valley. They typically wind up stuck with some wheels in the ditch
from which they need to be extracted by tow truck. To add insult to
injury, they then have to back their trucks down the narrow twisty
road, often for many kilometers before there is a place to turn
around. All the time accompanied by the tow truck, which is needed to
extricate them from the inevitable further side trips into the ditch.

What fun!

Seriously, if truck drivers want to navigate by GPS they need better
maps, with proper information on the passability (or not) by big heavy
vehicles built into the maps.

--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
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