This article documents what makes us all nervous about trusting computers with our transportation. First I’ve ever heard of such a thing happening. The article is written semi-hazily, it doesn’t say whether or not it was the right time to cross onto the tracks (the barriers not being down would indicate that) and then he just got stuck (as could happen to anyone, even without a GPS), but they certainly seem to try to make it sound as though he barreled through the barrier without even thinking and then got stuck…
Craziness.