satnav bollox

[doggone]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1315762/White-van-man-airlifted-safety-satnav-sends-mountain.html

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/28/article-1315762-0B61ECCE000005DC-239_634x435.jpg

[krytenboog]

Twat

[Imonster]

Agreed. I did some work on the outskirts of Huddersfield recently and some of the routes the sat nav was trying to take me down were hilarious - "take the next left"...

"Riiight...that byway that's on a thirty degree angle. Think I'll pass thanks, Ken." Yes, my satnav has a name. Don't judge me too harshly
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[colin1]

They've got some nice kit in Switzerland. I cant see the AA,RAC or RAF picking up your van for you by helicopter.
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[WildGoose]

Couldn't carry on and couldn't turn round?

He seems to have forgotten the third option of reverse, that would have saved a few thousand quid to send the chopper up there. It got that far, thus it can go back the way it came, surely, albeit backwards.

The footprint of that van is no bigger than a large car.

Utter muppet.

Love the daily mail angle of suggesting it was a satnav error. What about driver error?

Driving was still an ability (let's not go as far as a skill) last time I checked.
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[Ste]

"his satnav sent him to the top of a mountain by mistake"

I wonder where the evil satnav will send him next.

[J0Al1]

Sat nav's are both great and dreadful all at the same time.
The stress-relief they bring is so easily un-done by the stress they also give

Sat nav's have pissed me off many a time by sending me around the houses (by MILES). Or telling be to turn left when there is no left turn. OR telling me which way to goo far to late to accommodate the traffic.

You have to know yards as well..... only kids & grannies know yards.. jeeees! METERS please!
You can not use on without using a map to check it.


Might as well just save your £100 and use a £2 map.

Like the iPhone, this is something I will never buy.

[pinkyfloyd]

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/be1ly/new/satnav.jpg

Sorted
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[Raffles]

It's not fair. Whenever I provide a link to an item from The Daily Mail I get loads of shit from other members of the forum. One immature tosser even set me to enemy status for so doing.
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[WildGoose]

https://www.waterstones.com/wat/images/nbd/m/978074/954/9780749549879.jpg

This costs a tenner, it is by far the most useful map i've ever owned.

The detail is enough to get you almost anywhere, includes all but the most minor of tracks. Even distinguishes between minor un-numbered roads that are greater than or less than 4 metres wide.

I have a £100 satnav running all the time, just to pinpoint the postcode location (assuming the postcode exists, and is correct, often isn't). It mostly saves me missing a turning into a premises and having to turn round further up the road. Mileage and time estimation is also occasionally useful. Very expensive toy, compared to the map.
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So in other words, he stopped you for being flagrantly in posession of a motorcycle in direct contravention of the Hippies, Darkies and People Whose Face I Don't Like The Look of (Police Powers) Act. 1976

[WildGoose]

[Skudd]

A sat-nav is just a tool in the box, it is how you use it that counts.
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[Rastamantingt...]

Ahahahahaha! That tool deffinately not pon my phone up in the sky! Dat be 'im ruled out.
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[pablouk]

[blurredman]

Although the man is a silly billy for following a satnav that excessively, but I do also think the programmers of the satnav were high when they programmed that road into the system so I partly blame the satnav too. 50/50 here.


Oh and MissEdwood you are a blasfemer of proper measurements.

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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I miss my satnav. It played music whilst John Cleese muttered.

For general A-B i jot the towns and the road numbers/junctions down. Quick glance at the tankbag...job done.

Satnav makes me lazy..i don't bother remembering routes.
And i do less U-turns without it.


Pat
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[Nai]

My phone has a rough GPS with google maps (not the android version, just java). I pretty much use it as a map. I set the route I want to take, zoom out, and check it every so often to see how far along I am. No bluetooth or talking or take the next lefts, just a map thing really.

[crazymotorbik...]

Hey,

Reminds me of when i went to Halifax on the way back from cheshire after picking up my CB500.

I followed the Sat Nav all the way however for the last few miles it took me across bridal tracks and what resembled farmers fields...Not so bad for me on the bike but my dad, who was following in his car, was not amused

And yes like a donut i followed it. It did get us to our destination though!!

Cheers,
Shaun.

[Stelmer]

Mine keeps attempting to take me on some evil single track lanes. Ok in the a bike or car but not so much in a 3.5t Luton Van.

When I first got it for work, it sent me down through some housing estate up in the hills of Halifax and down some cobbled road which went down the side of a hill. Not so bad until a car came the other way. Luckily there was a house with a drive and the car went in there.

I found out that although the pub was at the bottom of this road, there was a more easier way there which lead to the A629. The programmers should have designed them so that the route planning went the most direct main road route, not take short cuts or plan the shortest distance route, despite which route option it is set to.

Having said that, it's started to include sneaky short cuts through housing estates since I updated it recently. I wonder if the route planning has changed in them.

[Raffles]

[dodgydog]

A bloke ended up in a similar situation in Todmorden, the coppers had him for driving without due care.

https://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/Mar/Week4/15248655.jpg


Dog
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[owdamer]

Here's one my mate came across while out for a walk somewhere near Rawtenstall.

https://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/owdamer/11268_171368893822_577938822_3029450_5934726_n.jpg

https://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/owdamer/11268_171368913822_577938822_3029452_1114046_n.jpg

Not quite as bas as being stuck up a mountain but god knows what the driver was thinking.