{"id":96,"date":"2017-08-04T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/08\/04\/chinese-man-following-gps-instructions-drives-car-into-river\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:22:12","slug":"chinese-man-following-gps-instructions-drives-car-into-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-man-following-gps-instructions-drives-car-into-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Man Following GPS Instructions Drives Car Into River"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A man in China has demonstrated the pitfalls of technology, driving into a river after being misled by his GPS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>A man in China has demonstrated the pitfalls of technology, driving into a river after being misled by his GPS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"427315c7fbaa57d748aa361ef7e82186-sz_40665.jpeg@1l_640w.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Flu7_X7FiK6_SRgXsKJQNyEQHnBz?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" style=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The man got stuck when the river started to rise. Photo:Shanghaiist<\/p>\n<p>The man was driving through the eastern Chinese province of Anhui on April 1, when he suddenly realised the dirt road he was travelling along was leading to a body of water.<\/p>\n<p>The man attempted to cross the river, but rising waters left his car trapped<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1c81fc03c3f8ef5f5dc8b851382fef18-sz_43930.jpeg@1l_640w.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fggan9OAWePtdCkyi9YsA0AOMHIr?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" style=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5px;\">It took police half a day to remove the car. Photo: Shanghaiist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It took emergency services more than half a day to remove the car from the river.<\/p>\n<p>Police had to call in a bulldozer to dig the car out of its muddy mess.<\/p>\n<p>The driver told police he was not familiar with the area and he had been relying on his car\u2019s navigation system when it led him down the ill-fated road.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:9News<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"640-11.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" style=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in China has demonstrated the pitfalls of technology, driving into a river after being misled by his GPS. A man in China has demonstrated the pitfalls of technology, &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}