What a tw*t-nav

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Originally Posted by Gazza77

I wish you'd been able to tell that to the woman I saw on the M62 a month or two ago with it at eye-level, directly in front of her.

Aye M62, in the dark, with a satnav i can see glowing from behind, obviously issuing the instruction "keep right" as they are crawling along at 40 mph in the fast lane! It happens a lot

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Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I leave the map at home.....seriously. Didn't even have one when we went down to Bordeaux on the bikes. Good job I can speak French pretty well then Not that I even needed it, like a homing pigeon me

Dizzy you can be my sat nav anyday

Originally Posted by Ed

Relying on my £2.99 road atlas from The Works, I have yet to need a satnav to find my way around the country

Yeah but, your map can't take you to 62 acacia ave, and when people that like to think they are posh and do not have a door no, you just input postcode and it takes you there. Obviously common sense has to be used as well.

[Sir Trev]

A work colleague was once amazed when his TomTom took him through a maze of streets in very rough estate and then a council roads depot before bringing him out on to the M25 through one of those "official use only" barriers. He got away with it too. The same colleague was also lead to the back of our business park and told to go through the bus only gated access road - he turned back at that one as it has cameras.

I'll stick to a map for quite a while yet I think.

Originally Posted by bluefishman

when people that like to think they are posh and do not have a door no

Maybe they are too poor to have one.

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me prat-nav directed me onto the motorway through the centre of glasgow to get to bearsden which was 8 miles from where i started and this was the shortest route - i despair sometimes at it!

been told that 22 is warm inside the red lights burning bright

As has been stated previously sat nav is a tool just like a map and any tool is only as effective as the person using it. Common sense should be used as should other senses. Also only as good as maps that are on it. On a street near myself they have closed of a number of roads as no right turn or bus access only but sat nav still tells me to go that way(with latest maps) luckily council have put signs up to inform me sat nav is wrong can only presume that after reading some of the storiesnot all councils are so considerate as to put signs up. Then again maybe people just dont look.

[Dave20046]

Guess that's why you shouldn't use tomtom riders in a car....

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Guess that's why you shouldn't use tomtom riders in a car....

well the sat-nav has got it right, it is not tom's fault some **** has [put bollards in the way, if you drive into them it would be your fault for not looking where you are going, not say well it told me to go down here.