[GSDI Legal Econ] If your GPS device told you to drive off a cliff, would you do it?

[Kate Lance]

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB120578983252543135.html 
Steered Wrong: Drivers Trust GPS Even to a Fault 
Blind Faith in Devices Trumps Common Sense; A Road to Nowhere
The Wall Street Journal Online, March 18, 2008, Page A1
 
The GPS hiccups are the latest twist on a human idiosyncrasy dating to the Industrial Revolution: a surprising willingness to rely on machines over experience. "Rather than trust our judgment of nature, we let technology
tell us what's going on," says Clifford Nass, a communication professor at Stanford University.


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