Sat Nav's

[TWR]

Would you FULLY TRUST them? even with updates.

[gness]

Evening TWR....I wouldn't be without mine but I don't rely on it completely... I use my brain a bit too.

I have no sense of direction at all....none....MrG tore his hair out often...

I do like that it can tell me immediately if I have gone wrong....usually when I am singing away with Rod Stewart on a long journey.....xx

[silliemillie]

No, they are a very helpful tool but they still need to be used alongside human, commonsense.

[TWR]

Hi Gness, I never used one whilst I was driving, but I have used one I bought off ebay, a waste of time I give it to my daughter, It's better using the old maps in my opinion or the up-graded maps. thats my opinion.

[ubasses]

Always use my brain as well when some of the roads looked iffy, but there have been several occasions when I have decided to go with it and found I have avoided some awful tailbacks

[gness]

MrG could and my daughter can...look at a map and have a route in their head then mentally follow it.....I can't and my sat nav has made my journeys much more relaxed.

Twr...if I told you the tales of my getting lost because of not having a sense of direction you wouldn't believe them.....I have met some wonderful people and some police officers with great senses of humour........when I've been lost.....☺

[andy-hughes]

Since I can go somewhere in the morning, and not be able to find my way back in the afternoon (I am not kidding!) - I think the Sat Nav is the greatest invention of the modern age.

Anything that even gives me the correct compass direction is an improvement on what I can do, so if it takes a bit longer its way than my way, that's no problem, because I don't have a way!

Love - never leave home without it.

[shoota]

Aren't police officers just the wittiest, most humorous of peeps?

[gness]

Andy...I love you....when I bought this house I had to use the sat nav to get home for the first month.....☺

[gness]

Shoota.....I've met some real jokers.....the motorcycle policemen in Yorkshire are the best......xx

[andy-hughes]

Love you too - not a problem as far as I am concerned!!

[KARL]

There is no comparison between driving alone by map or a navigator - the latter is far better. If you are driving around an unfamiliar/distant urban area then you would have to have a very detailed map to be really useful in locating your destination - repeat that again and again and you have to buy yourself a small library of maps. Then step up to the situation where you fly into a foreign country, hire a car and set off. I have done this lots and lots of times, originally navigating by whatever map(s) I had, more recently by navigator. Not only is the navigator easier to carry but it beats navigating by maps hands down.

That said, I usually like to carry some map/maps that allow me to see long distance routes at a glance - possibly a carry-over by habit. You cannot switch off mentally and blindly follow the navigator's instructions, that has the potential of getting you into trouble.

[DaisyNonna]

I can get lost returning from the Ladies' in a strange building.

[gness]

Daisy.....so can I....have you ever had to phone on of the people you're with to come and find you?
I once got half way back from the ladies in restaurant in France. I was lost and my very poor french and sign language resulted in one of the waitresses taking me back to the ladies....I nearly cried.....☺

[sunny-dave]

Gness - didn't you once have to text someone to rescue you when the lock jammed in foreign parts?

[DaisyNonna]

No, thankfully gness, but before the advent of mobile phones I did get stuck in the loo at Stuttgart airport at 2a.m. between flights. 7 months pregnant and had to climb over the turnstile. Never been back.

[Answerprancer]

My first "satnav" was actually a handheld Garmin GPS balanced on my dashboard so LOTS of common sense was required as I only had an arrow and a mileage to go by. This stood me in good stead for the TomTom I now use.
I could never go back to buggering about with bloody A-Zs - all that stopping and squinting then setting off again. I agree with Andy Hughes, it is a great invention and I'd be f****d without mine as I do a LOT of driving in unfamiliar territory.
Conclusion: it's *mostly* trustworthy, but I wouldn't follow it into a duckpond, oh and I still have (and use) all my OS mapwork skills when out walking.

[Baldric]

Yes, as long as you include a degree of common sense, look around and ahead, see what you're driving into, then they beat having to stop and read a map into the proverbial cooked hat!

[Baldric]

TWR @ 2014 ^^^ it's true what they say mate,
you get what you pay for!

[Prudie]

I don't think I have found a use for them more than about twice a year and that's just in hire cars. I don't own one or use my phone for it.