Technology isn't always right

Roadsigns: The computer isn't always right The Sunday Mail, UK.

The Mail reports, in "First 'ignore your sat nav' roadsigns go up," about a town in the UK that put up a sign warning people that GPS directions on routes through their community weren't accurate. From the article:

Owing to a fault in the electronic information system, many drivers are sent through the Hampshire hamlet only to find the lane narrows to 6ft and they get stuck. Villagers hope that the signs will spare them, and HGV drivers, any further grief, and stop the destruction of hedgerows and verges in Beacon Hill Lane.

Brian Thorpe-Tracey, whose property borders the lane, said he had regularly had to rebuild cobbled kerbs as well as help stuck vans to reverse. The 49-year-old company director said: 'The problem mushroomed overnight with the advent of satnav.

I know that on a recent trip to Baltimore in a car similarly equipped that we were sent in an unnecessary circle, on our way to the Baltimore Art Museum.