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Hello, and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,

Click and Clack the Tabaret Brothers.

And we're broadcasting this week from the new Luddite support group here at Carthog.

I don't want to talk about Luddites, but here's an interesting thing.

A German motorist actually, for some strange reason, driving a BMW, drove into a river.

And here's why a German motorist obediently following the satellite-guided navigation

system of his car, drove straight into the Havel River in eastern Germany, police said,

on Saturday. He drove his BMW, passed a stop sign, down a ramp, and about four meters into

the river before stopping. Nobody was hurt. He was following the system which had failed to note

that the road in the town of

Caputh near Potsdam ended at a ferry crossing. So he, I mean, the thing says they're great.

You pressed a little button to where you want to go. Proceed for 1.3 kilometers.

1.3 kilometers. Right turn 0.2 kilometers. Right turn 0.1 kilometers. Point three kilometers. Right turn, point two kilometers.

Right turn, point one kilometers.

And he takes the right turn down the ramp, and the ferry is supposed to be there to take him across the river.

He just drives right in.

If there is ever poetic justice, that's it.

Indeed.

I love it.

Is that what you wanted to talk about?

I thought you wanted to, I had the feeling that you were going to rant and rain.

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