Italy: Man gets stuck driving car down Rome's Spanish Steps
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I probably should have specified Los Alamos National Laboratory instead. It was definitely not a place I was authorized to be. I was just driving from Bandolier National Monument to Santa Fe. I’ve never been to Oak Ridge, Tennessee but I would hope someone stops me before I get to a transuranic element or something.
To be honest, I probably shouldn’t be around anything beyond iron. (I’m a star.)
Oh yeah there's still active labs there.
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His mistake was not driving a Mini Cooper.
Or a Fiat 500
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I’d judge him but I once was forced to rent a car in France because of a strike and drove through what was definitely a total pedestrian/restaurant area because it was on a map as a road. It can happen if you’re an idiot with no sense of direction.
Also, Google Maps once tried to give me a shortcut through the Manhattan Project site in New Mexico. The security guard asked for ID and I gave him my driver’s license and he said, “Here’s what you’re gonna do. Go to that turnaround right there and never come back.”
A lot of areas that seem like only pedestrian areas in Europe are still roads. Cars regularly drive on tiny streets, especially in Italy and France, nearly clipping people eating dinner.
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one hopes that he's learnt his lesson and takes appropriate steps hereon.
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I got berated once by an officer for trying to sit down on those steps.
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I have nightmares about stuff like this
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Or used Apple maps to navigate.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Apple Maps has had its share of mishaps too. There was one instance where someone was hosting a party at a farmhouse, and everyone who used Apple Maps to navigate to the address ended up on an airport runway.
IIRC, this was shortly after their big breakup with Google Maps, so Apple fell back to using outdated maps.
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Apple Maps has had its share of mishaps too. There was one instance where someone was hosting a party at a farmhouse, and everyone who used Apple Maps to navigate to the address ended up on an airport runway.
IIRC, this was shortly after their big breakup with Google Maps, so Apple fell back to using outdated maps.
That's the joke. Iirc, there were lots of news of seemingly insane driving by people blindly following the navigation in Apple devices some years ago. (Might be quite a few years now)
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Italy is even worse than France for this kind of thing. More than a few times I've found myself on streets that DEFINITELY were not car streets, but Google maps sent me there. Florence was the worst for this. I've also found myself on streets in Italy that only very very narrow cars could fit down because of Google maps. I had to reverse down a long alley because it kept narrowing and narrowing until even with the mirrors pulled back it was narrower than my rental car (with a small car in front of me pissed off because I was blocking her).
Germany also has a lot of pedestrian/restaurant squares that do allow cars but only early in the morning or late at night, but there are no signs saying WHEN those times are. And I needed to drive through those squares to get to my hotels, so that was interesting a couple times.
Spain can get pretty tight too.
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I’d judge him but I once was forced to rent a car in France because of a strike and drove through what was definitely a total pedestrian/restaurant area because it was on a map as a road. It can happen if you’re an idiot with no sense of direction.
Also, Google Maps once tried to give me a shortcut through the Manhattan Project site in New Mexico. The security guard asked for ID and I gave him my driver’s license and he said, “Here’s what you’re gonna do. Go to that turnaround right there and never come back.”
I remember my moms old Garmin GPS always said "turn left down bike path" when we got close to home. I also one heard it tell her to turn left down a river while we were driving over a bridge.
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I got berated once by an officer for trying to sit down on those steps.
They were looking out for you, you could get ran over.
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Saying this as an American, my first thought was it had to be an American tourist.
