Global Positioning System or GPS constitutes a group of satellites. These satellites ‘talk’ to the GPS navigation device installed in your car or any other device to pinpoint your location, ideally between fifty and hundreds meters. Digital mapping, in conjunction with navigation information stored in the Global Positioning System receiver, provides the user with the exact location. Interestingly, a GPS navigation system can guide you through heavy traffic, and thus provide you a number of alternate routes to reach the desired place. With a GPS navigation system, you can locate even the most far-flung areas with ease. However, a GPS system would not be able to drive your vehicle. Does GPS cause auto accidents? Let us find out. With the rising popularity of GPS navigation devices, accidents are also increasing at an alarming rate. In the UK alone, there have been over three hundred thousand registered cases of GPS-related auto accidents. Let us take a close look at the factors that causes GPS related auto accidents. Let us first accept the fact that GPS devices are not super-computers- they cannot think. When drivers blindly follow the routes given by a GPS device, they sometimes end up meeting with an accident. Satellite communication errors and inaccurate maps might confuse the driver. Drivers with a GPS device in their cars, sometimes become overconfident. They think that a GPS would never fail them. Perhaps this overconfidence causes auto accidents. Teenagers, unaware of the loopholes in the GPS tracking technology, drive vehicles under the influence of alcohol or drugs. They believe that the GPS device fitted ion their cars would warn them of the impending dangers beforehand. Nothing can be more foolish than this, isn’t it? To pay the medical bills, sometimes we need to apply for emergency loans. GPS is a technology, and like all other technologies it is not foolproof.
