You know me, I always enjoy analogies to motor racing... The modern F1 steering wheel is a pretty good example of how far we've progressed from the days of analog gauges arranged so that the needles all pointed straight up... (grin)

And, as unfathomable as how a world class navigator with every conceivable state of art tool at his disposal could miss a charted directly in his path might be, it's no more so than how the Fastest Man Who Ever Lived, with the race all but won, the laps winding down and holding a 55 second gap over his second place rival, could throw away a Monaco Grand Prix victory on the single easiest corner on the circuit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFqsWWG1qE