Sat Nav - A Cautionary Tale.

[Kopite]

...don't trust them more than your own judgement/eyes.

 

Polish driver follows GPS directions into lake - Yahoo! News UK

[melons]

I'm using the back roads allot at the moment. you know the ones that locals know and use to get past the tourists quicker. Well we did a few years ago.

 

The other week an idiot was following his sat nav with a fuck off caravan on tow to go along this .... its a single track for a mile of road for before, over and after the bridge. Limited lay-bys, only 2 that could fit his car and his caravan in. Its hard enough to reverse over anyway, but when towing something? i don't think so.

 

 

 

This weeks one has been the Rhyd ddu area, anyone know it? this used to be incredibly quiet i could quite often hit the speed limit. I've not hit over 45mph in the last week on it. Satnav's are to blame, they are showing people the shortest distance, not the most direct meaning they are pissing me off.

 

that is all.

[Cath]

...don't trust them more than your own judgement/eyes.

 

Polish driver follows GPS directions into lake - Yahoo! News UK

 

A sat nav is an aid to navigation not an alternative to a brain.

[melons]

A sat nav is an aid to navigation not an alternative to a brain.

 

Ah but a brain is needed in the first place.

[Cath]

Ah but a brain is needed in the first place.

 

But they sell them to men.

[Kopite]

Dem crazee Swedes.

 

BBC NEWS | Europe | Swedes miss Capri after GPS gaffe

 

Swedes miss Capri after GPS gaffe

 

The romantic holiday isle of Capri lies in the Gulf of Naples

A Swedish couple in search of the isle of Capri drove to Carpi, an industrial town in northern Italy, because they misspelt the name in their car's GPS.

 

Italian officials say the couple asked at Carpi's tourist office where they could find Capri's famous Blue Grotto.

 

The car's sat nav system had sent them 650km (400 miles) off course to Carpi.

 

"Capri is an island. They did not even wonder why they didn't cross any bridge or take any boat," said a bemused tourism official in Carpi.

 

Once they realised their mistake, the couple got back in their car and headed south, the official added.

[CaptainK]

Sat Navs can be reeallly shit. Personal experience of just how shit....

 

I was working down in Basildon and Benfleet down in Essex once. Having finished the day in Benfleet, I headed back to my hotel in Basildon with the aid of Tom Tom.

 

So I'm heading down this road and people are staring. I think nothing of it and then the road narrows and there's no more street lamps. Carried on a bit more and the road starts to turn into a track. In fairness, it was the beginning of December, 6:30 in the evening, no cloud and no moon - fucking pitch dark, and the headlights on my car were shite. But having heard the stories about satnav, I stopped.

 

I could see that further ahead, that the track was narrowing and longish grass was growing on both sides of the track. Got a powerful LED torch out my car and could see that a 100m on, the track eventually disappeared - just TALL grass.

 

Even further ahead, was the fucking A road I was trying to get onto. And TomTom as trying to take me down this track onto the A road.

 

What TomTom didn't fucken realise was that the road stopped 50 meters short of the A road (A130, I think).

 

Worst of all? The A road was about 30 foot over the fucking imaginary road it was taking me down ! I can imagine the next instruction - "Take off vertically and continue for 10 meters, and bear left".

 

Just glad I got suspicious of the fucking thing in time.

[Stonekill3r]

Lesson of learning for all

 

Never trust Sat Nav after all its a fuckin know it all bird in a box and as we all know this can never lead to good things

[CaptainK]

Lesson of learning for all

 

Never trust Sat Nav after all its a fuckin know it all bird in a box and as we all know this can never lead to good things

 

Repped

[Brownie]

My bird bought me a sat nav the other week as a congratulatory present for passing my test; it's good but it's sent me all over the place on more than one occasion so far!

[Stonekill3r]

i think theres some sort of deep routed psychosis with sat navs a sort of multiple personality disorder reasoning below

 

normal journey "turn left one hundred yards, turn right at next exit"

fine and dandy but if so much as think about deviating from the route she turns into a raving lunatic "TURN AROUND NOW GO BACK THE OTHER WAY YOU HAVE GONE THE WRONG WAY TURN AROUND NOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW GO MY WAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!" i ended up having to blindfold my sat nav take it out to a remote area and put it out of its misery its in a better place now and i am at peace with the knowledge that true knowledge comes from the knowledge that i know nothing but i enjoy the journey ahead

[tokyojoe]

Buy a bloody map.

[Stonekill3r]

i found a simpler easier way i just stopped driving now the bus takes me everywhere i need to go with minimal effort or cost lol