Billions Of Pounds Have Been Wasted . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . putting satellites into space, just so that people can have satnavs in their cars, when all they really needed were cassette players ;-)

[tonyav]

Very good that, Chris. I enjoyed seeing the cars of the past ( except for the 'Beetle' I hated those things ).

[andy-hughes]

Interesting.

As advised, the flaw is the inability to reprogramme if the route is compromised, or, as i often do, if a wrong turning is taken.

[Hopkirk]

I'm out.

[wolf63]

At least satellites are useful https://tinyurl.com/bdf4fuxs

[Buenchico]

Thanks for that, Wolfie!

(It just goes to show how much more intelligent cats really are then humans).
;-)

[Barmaid]

I love sat nav when I'm on my own. But if I was co-piloting I used to love an old fashioned road atlas.

However, in a previous life heading to Cornwall on the M6, I remember giving the instruction several times to move to the left since our junction was looming. As we passed said junction I remonstrated with the driver who said 'that said south west'. I responded despairingly "the last time I ĺooked Cornwall was south ****** west".

[tonyav]

LOL, missed the M5 intersection then, Barmaid.

[tonyav]

There's room for at least another six cats on that dish.

[Buenchico]

I met people with a similar sense of direction (or lack of it) when working on the railways, Barmaid.

Once, when working at Ipswich station, a lady asked me when the next train to Colchester was. Upon being told, she followed up with "Have I come the best way round?".

In order to be able to answer her question, I asked where she'd started out from. Upon being told that she'd come from Farnham, I pointed out that she must have come through Colchester to get to Ipswich. However she was totally adamant that she hadn't.

When I asked her about her route, she said "Well, the only time that I've been to Colchester before, I started out from Birmingham. So I got trains from Farnham to Birmingham first, so that I could start from there again"!