IQ Test Necessary
Posted: Sun 13 May, 2007 Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism 3 Comments »In my opinion, some people just shouldn’t be allowed in a car.
Fair enough, I don’t have a problem with someone being reliant on a sat-nav unit for directions. Hell, I’m using one this weekend, as I’ve never done the drive before. But relying on that sat-nav to tell you “You’re about to get out of your car on a railway crossing” is unreal.
“I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers’ gate with a red circle on it. I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through. So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me. “
So, go through one gate, stop the car, get out, close one gate behind you, open the one in front. (all the time not noticing the sodding great lines of metal – also known as train tracks- going across the area) Common sense would say ‘open both gates, get in car, go through gates, pull in, get out of car, close both gates, get back in car, continue driving’ – or is that just me?
From memory: the standard instruction sign for those type of crossings does indeed say “check that the light is green, open both gates, check that the light is *still* green, drive through, close gates.” I don’t think the pillock read the instructions properly. Which, to be honest, is hardly surprising.
Obviously tyhe kind of girl that if the sat nav told her to drive off a cliff she would without question. Maybe she got confused and thought there was a little person in it telling her where to go! Muppet
I considered posting about the very same story – it is a feeble excuse to blame the SatNav unit for this, even if I’m not the biggest fan of such things.
A “common sense” test should be a required part of any driving test. Hell, an IQ test, or anything, to remove some of the clear brain-dead idiots from the road.