Re: Sat nav on trains

Ar wrote:

The train is on a fixed line, the driver just can't pull over to
another branch by himself. How can he get lost?!

To be lost is not to know where you are. There is a difference between
knowing that you as a driver of a train from London to Glasgow and
knowing precisely where you are in the hundreds of miles of
possibilities. There have been some accidents where it has emerged that
the drivers mistook their location for somewhere else.

But yes, the previous poster was joking, because as any fule kno, a
Satnav isn't any good on railways, since it will instruct the driver to
turn on to roads at level crossings.
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