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Is Your Sat Nav As Helpful As It Thinks It Is?
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- Yes, it's perfectly fine! - 72 votes
- 51%
- I would like my sat nav to give better lane and merging information - 41 votes
- 29%
- I would like my sat nav to give me more time to react - 19 votes
- 13%
- It could get me closer to my destination - 10 votes
- 7%
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I just wish it didn't note I'd followed it's instructions precisely and then pretend I didn't by saying, "next opportunity..."
It'd help if it didn't keep trying to get me to go back to the closed motorway I've just been forced to leave too. There needs to be a button that says, "That's not an option, fool, why do you calculate I left it ? Find the next best route".
I just wish it didn't note I'd followed it's instructions precisely and then pretend I didn't by saying, "next opportunity..."
It'd help if it didn't keep trying to get me to go back to the closed motorway I've just been forced to leave too. There needs to be a button that says, "That's not an option, fool, why do you calculate I left it ? Find the next best route".
Speaking as someone who can walk into a hotel, use the facilities, and then be unable to find my way back to the reception, I think the Sat Nav is the greatest invention ever.
It may not get me absolutely where I need to be every single time, but given the alternative, it is always going to be a thousand times nearer than I would get without it!
It may not get me absolutely where I need to be every single time, but given the alternative, it is always going to be a thousand times nearer than I would get without it!
Absolute rubbish. Bought one a few years ago, hardly used it. Need to have a rough idea of where you're going so you twig if it goes off on a tangent, in which case paper maps and finding your way the old method is a necessary skill. Updates were so slow to reflect changes it was annoying being told to drive the wrong way down one-way streets or down a slipway into the river Avon. Give me a compass and an Ordnance Survey map any day.
Having a satnav has changed my life.
I can now drive stress-free to anywhere.
I have no sense of direction at all and can lose my way on roads that I have travelled many hundreds of times. I'm not too bad with maps, but you cannot map read and drive simultaneously.
Now I just put in the post code and drive off happy in the knowledge that I will arrive at my destination. Previously I would have been wandering round without a clue as to where I was.
I see I have a fellow sufferer in Andy Hughes.....people who do not have this affliction have no idea how bad it is. They think we are putting it on, don't want to get to wherever we are going for whatever reason..not so.
And don't get me started on following durections given by helpful people....they NEVER give accurate directions...for some reason some roads do not cou t, so second right can mean third on the right because the first road o the right is too small to count....how am I supposed to know that?
Sorry....private grief there leading to a rant....
Anyway, satnavs are great.
I can now drive stress-free to anywhere.
I have no sense of direction at all and can lose my way on roads that I have travelled many hundreds of times. I'm not too bad with maps, but you cannot map read and drive simultaneously.
Now I just put in the post code and drive off happy in the knowledge that I will arrive at my destination. Previously I would have been wandering round without a clue as to where I was.
I see I have a fellow sufferer in Andy Hughes.....people who do not have this affliction have no idea how bad it is. They think we are putting it on, don't want to get to wherever we are going for whatever reason..not so.
And don't get me started on following durections given by helpful people....they NEVER give accurate directions...for some reason some roads do not cou t, so second right can mean third on the right because the first road o the right is too small to count....how am I supposed to know that?
Sorry....private grief there leading to a rant....
Anyway, satnavs are great.
I voted "I would like my sat nav to give me more time to react" because it was the nearest to what I actually think, which is "I would like my sat nav to react (refresh) faster than it does". I have a fairly old TomTom and it often screws me up, particularly on roundabouts where the refresh rate is just too slow and jerky for me to work out where my exit is in time.
My biggest gripe however is this:
Why why oh effin' why is there not a "road" choice in the "travel via/avoid part of route" option????
My biggest gripe however is this:
Why why oh effin' why is there not a "road" choice in the "travel via/avoid part of route" option????
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