i3 gave me a puncture :@

suby786 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 9

true was my own fault, i didnt uncheck AVOID UNPAVED ROADS, and i was driving my sisters coupe (which is low by standard) and it took me down this dirt track and hit a massive pothole killing off the 18" £90 tyre and banged the whole underside of the car. well peed off and was all due to the i3 not taking me down MAIN ROADS. the place i was going to had access by main roads but the i3 took me down the fastest route which was the dirt road:@

ive learnt my lesson now...

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:

JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: Re: i3 gave me a puncture :@

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:28 am Post subject:

RDS · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 09, 2006 Posts: 242

In which case shouldn't this thread be headed:

'i3 Did Not Give Me A Puncture But My Inability To Use It Properly Did' ??

As you have rightly said it was your own fault, all of it and it is totally incorrect to say
'It was all due to the i3 not taking me down MAIN ROADS.'

You drove the vehicle down an unpaved road not the satnav.

GPS systems are nothing more than tools, ones which can be extremely useful but at the end of the day they're still tools.As the old saying goes 'A bad workman blames his tools'

Hamie · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 30, 2003 Posts: 177

philpugh · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject:

Even the best tools on the planet are no use if you don't know when it is appropriate or not to use them. Smile

The only thing I would really like to see improved on the nuvi (660) is an image of the up-coming junction a la TomTom - it's not difficult to do and it could be a pop-up over the bottom left or right corners.

As for the TMC interface I have only had it work once 'for real' as I live and do most of my driving in the NW and there appears to be a problem with the Winter Hill TMC transmissions. I was returning from Shrewsbury a few weeks ago and the warning triange popped up on the RHS. I touched it and it gave info about a problem on the A49 (it was closed for re-surfacing) and offered the option of routing around it - which of course I was going to do anyway. But that's what I would want from such a system - I don't need info on problems that aren't on the route I am following. I was a long-term user of the TrafficMaster alert system (can't remember the name - Oracle?). This gave local only information and I found it very useful. At the time I was a 30k miles/year driver and it got me out of problems on many occasions - I do a lot less now but the fact that Garmin were using TrafficMaster as their info provider was one of the buying points in their favour when I was looking for an all-in-one unit.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject:

RDS · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 09, 2006 Posts: 242

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MaFt · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:12 am Post subject:

maybe sat nav manufacturers could get away from the blame by changing the voice commands from 'turn left' to 'you could turn left here' - that way you could never say the sat nav TOLD you to do it, just that it suggested it and you made the decision yourself ;)

MaFt

sunstrip_steve · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 126

jaff · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 08, 2006 Posts: 10

I remember a very similar story to this inthe press about a guy with a freelander, was "told" to go down this farm road, which he though t would be fine becuae he was in an off roader, , he then drove down what could only be decribed as stine steps then through a stream and then finall got the car wedged on some boulders with a path running through between them. He tried to sue the sat nav manufacturer as he had ASSUMED all the roads it directed you down had been driven. the case was flung out for basically it was his own fault for being a *insert your choice of word for idiot*.

I suppose its like every thing its down to the users discretion and with the auto re route function, you can basically chose whether or not you want to follow that instruction, or in my dads case ignore all of them becuase he knows better than it does untill the point we end up in a field.
Sat nav is great if used correctly and with a modicum of common sense,
It'll be a long time well a fare few years before sat nav can truely become a blame figure, when those boffins can hook it and cruiscontrol up to create a auto pilot, at that point we can point the finger at the sreen on the dash and hurl abuse with out fear of being carted off.

Ahh well i suppose it could be worse you could have been that guy in a merica back in the early 90s who spent $40,000 on a car first day he get sit he puts onthe cruise control, slouches into his sleep for a nap and ploughs through a cornfield when the car came to a corner, writing it off, and tried to sue because the though cruisecontrol drove the car like it did in knight rider. How peeved would your sister have been then?

mussey1 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2006 Posts: 69

In the UK each type of road has a classifiacation i.e Motorway, A, B, etc.

Maybe I'm wrong but in order to calculate faster route and arrival time the mapping data must include speed of each road.

If that is the case why could the road classifications not also be included, therefore a route could be planned using only A & B roads for example, or the sat nav could be told to avoid unclassified roads unless there was absoutely no other option.

Maybe I am over simplistic???

Mussey1.

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