The excuse that the GPS led them there is so ridiculous. Even if it did, you should absolutely have the awareness to determine that you can’t drive on railway tracks and override that decision.

Drivers need to be held more accountable for the moronic things they do. You make mistakes with gigantic machines and people get hurt or die. It’s not a, “whoops.”

My instinct says stay alive but the GPS says keep going straight.

“Several miles” is incorrect. Measuring on Google Earth says 500m, or 0.3 miles.
Still a fuckup but much less impressive

Can’t park there, mate.

So she drove her card on a very small set of rails for several miles? And she only slipped from the rails when she entered the station? That’s actually an impressive driving feat.

All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ

Hold up. This is in SEATTLE?! How did they even get the car to the track? This is like getting a car onto a subway track.

Edit: ahhh. In other pictures, it’s down south where the track gets to ground level. Also, utah plates.

This is probably very dangerous, but also hilarious.

Critical think is dead. Long live critical thinking.

Also booze is doing GREAT

This is what you get when you build light rail at street level without adequate crossing barriers.

Seattle’s Link light rail was built through the city’s south side through the middle of Martin Luther King Junior Way South (“MLK”) with street level crossings for cars and pedestrians, for miles and miles, without any physical barriers like bollards or traditional railroad crossing gates, just flashing lights. Trains are hitting cars all the time here, and it’s incredibly easy for a car to drive right onto the tracks.

There has long been a need for a major safety improvement project to correct this, but Sound Transit is having major project funding problems lately regarding a new line being built, so we’re basically stuck with this problem for at least 20 more years.

Update: Including a photo from the original thread. This is where the driver drove up. The photos from the original post were taken at the light rail station, which is up the rail ramp in this photo and to the left.

You can see concrete curbs here separating the at-grade rail from the street (which are easy enough to drive over), but even those curbs disappear at street crossings.

Driver must have thought they got the new update to electrify to charge while driving.

in gta?

Fucking Mazda drivers… Checks driveway… Oh wait, I am one of them