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timber Frequent Visitor
Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 422 Location: Wild and Windy SW Scotland UK
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: How sat-nav rats brought jams to country lanes |
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see link Times on-line http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22750-2068241,00.html
Quote: | It may be the quickest route according to your in-car guide, but increasingly the technology is sending drivers on rat runs through obscure rural byways – and the locals aren't happy |
Quote: | We now get lorries, vans and cars up here all the time. They follow their sat nav directions from Newton Abbot to Torquay and it takes them right through my farm |
Quote: | There is the potential that drivers will get routed down smaller roads because the mathematical calculation always shows which route is the shortest journey even if they are unclassified roads |
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marksfish Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Jun 25, 2005 Posts: 802 Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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When I first got my Sat Nav, I drove from Leeds to Burnley to collect something for a friend. As it was home time, I wanted to avoid the motorway home, so opted for the "shortest route" which was some 30 miles shorter! I'm not stupid (well read on and judge for yourself about that ) and expected to be routed down country lanes and stuff which obviously would not be as quick as using the mororways. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was travelling along a single track country road for about 3 miles. Tom Tom told me to continue straight ahead, but there was a farmhouse in front of me!!! The road went no further and was green field as far as I could see .
I was recently returning from a job in Ashbourne and wanted to avoid the roadworks on the A38, so plotted my "avoid" area. I found myself crossing over some cattle grids and following a narrow road through the middle of a farm. I am sure this is a public road, but a little disconcerting nonetheless.
I realise that a little bit of common sense and savvy goes a long way, but when you are in an area you don't know, you do tend to trust your life to these little devices and their various quirks.
Anyone else care to comment?
Mark _________________ Garmin Drivesmart 51 LMT-D Europe |
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Tim Buxton Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 14/09/2002 20:56:18 Posts: 5231 Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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marksfish wrote: | I realise that a little bit of common sense and savvy goes a long way, but when you are in an area you don't know, you do tend to trust your life to these little devices and their various quirks.
Anyone else care to comment? |
Common sense should override trust in SatNav every time. I sure hope I don't meet this idiot below on the road.
Quote: | For some drivers this can’t come soon enough. Stewart Lockhart, an ambulance service employee from Alexandria, near Dumbarton, who has installed a £400 TomTom system in his car, has discovered that his increased reliance on the technology has meant he has fallen foul of the law.
“I have committed a lot of traffic offences because of my sat nav,” he says. “It often tells me to go the wrong way down one-way streets in Paisley. It tells me to take right-hand turns when it is illegal and it sends me down bus and taxi lanes. I bought it to make my life easier, but it is useless.” |
He's doing the driving, isn't he? _________________ Tim |
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smstextaddict Lifetime Member
Joined: Nov 26, 2005 Posts: 82 Location: oxford
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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my sat nav the otherday showed me a route that i never knew existed through a farm and down some dirt (well snow at the time) tracks. When i came a cross the hidden lane I did get the old trusty local OS blue book out just to check it, sure enough it wasnt a dead end and only saved a couple of minutes. But then with saying that, sat navs have pointed me to what they call roads which are nothing more than a footpath 8O |
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TazUk Regular Visitor
Joined: Jun 03, 2005 Posts: 130 Location: Kent, UK
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Some people seem to have a switch on sat nav switch off brain mentality
If their sat nav told them to drive in reverse around the M25 at 100MPH I wonder how many would do it 8O |
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Border_Collie Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 2543 Location: Rainham, Kent. England.
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | If their sat nav told them to drive in reverse around the M25 at 100MPH I wonder how many would do it |
You mean you don't have to? _________________ Formerly known as Lost_Property
And NO that's NOT me in the Avatar. |
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alix776 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 03/05/2003 14:45:49 Posts: 3999 Location: leyland lancs ENGLAND
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Quote:
If their sat nav told them to drive in reverse around the M25 at 100MPH I wonder how many would do it
You mean you don't have to?
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