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Originally Posted by Viney
My girlfriends Satnav got lost in Croydon
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Was that when she chucked it out the window for leading her on a merry dance?!
The big problem with Sat Navs is that it's easy to trust them too much - how many of us have blindly followed our sat nav when we're sure it's quicker/easier to stay on until the next junction, or we're sure there's another way, or wasn't that a sign back there that we didn't pay attention to because the sat nav is doing the work.
They're good guides, and going somewhere unknown they'll always beat a map. They'll never be faster than someone with local knowledge though - they can't take into account roadworks, how busy roads get at certain times of day, etc. (they can't yet, anyway - just a matter of time) but the point of a gps isn't to replace your knowledge it's to supplement it.