Satnav idiot who nearly drove over a cliff convicted of careless driving

[internetstalker]

I predict that you and all the other naysayers will be routinely using the tech within the next two or three years, whatever y'all may think now, simply because it makes sense to do so. Let's revisit this thread in 2012 and see, shall we

by then all cars will have them as standard, so not fair

 

[newbie]

Well I won't be because I don't have a car, and can't see myself needing one in the next couple of years...

OIC, I assumed your explanation of your map-reading skills was based on some years of regular diving in unfamiliar places.

by then all cars will have them as standard, so not fair

I'm driving an S reg astra and I see no possibility I'll have a new car in 3 years time. But yes, they'll be fitted to new cars as standard because, you know, they're very useful and like central locking only the cheap ones won't have it. I'd certainly like it if it was built in and voice activated- "navigate to home" would be very much better than the current faffing that's needed

tbh, I don't really care whether other people stick with squashed trees or not, so long as they don't balance them on the steering wheel and try to read them while driving, but I know few people who've got accustomed to satnav who'd consider going back.

 

[Spymaster]

Ok, the bloke's a bit of a cock but why the fuck did he get done?

Well harsh.

 

[internetstalker]

I'd certainly like it if it was built in and voice activated- "navigate to home" would be very much better than the current faffing that's needed

TBF

If you need a satnav to drive home, then fuck me you need a sat nav

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Can you get a genuine Dalek voice for Sat Navs?

[phones BBC to buy rights to the idea]

You can get a Mike Strutter voice.

 

[XR75]

Ok, the bloke's a bit of a cock but why the fuck did he get done?

Well harsh.

Maybe the crash was nothing to do with the sat nav.

 

[Spymaster]

Maybe the crash was nothing to do with the sat nav.

I think it did.

‘In a sense I feel silly but I’m disgusted how many points have been put on my licence as I see what happened as an innocent accident.
‘People who drive without insurance get smaller penalties.’

I tend to agree. £370 fine and 6 points is way over the top!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

So what was this track? Was is a byway that is legal for cars or a bridleway or footpath? Or just a track on private property?

 

[internetstalker]

So what was this track? Was is a byway that is legal for cars or a bridleway or footpath? Or just a track on private property?

Its a track too small for the jamfools car thats for sure

 

[kyser_soze]

Newest laid bit of road in Wales tho, so you can see how he's make an error...

 

[jæd]

TBF

If you need a satnav to drive home, then fuck me you need a sat nav

Not everyone goes to the same places all the time. Plus they can route you around trouble-spots.

 

[jæd]

I'm driving an S reg astra and I see no possibility I'll have a new car in 3 years time. But yes, they'll be fitted to new cars as standard because, you know, they're very useful and like central locking only the cheap ones won't have it. I'd certainly like it if it was built in and voice activated- "navigate to home" would be very much better than the current faffing that's needed

Once you've set up a Bookmark it takes two key-presses on mine...

 

[internetstalker]

Not everyone goes to the same places all the time. Plus they can route you around trouble-spots.

you missed my point

if your driving home then your ALWAYS going to the same place.

 

[jæd]

you missed my point

if your driving home then your ALWAYS going to the same place.

But sometimes from a different place...

 

[internetstalker]

But sometimes from a different place...

LOL

But if you've just driven there getting home is easy

 

[Hassan I Sabha]

But not always from the same place. It is good to get you from somewhere remote/that you do not know to the main roads/motorways then common sense, knowledge whatever can take over.

 

[internetstalker]

either way I'm talking from experiance

so I'm right, your all wrong!!

 

[jæd]

LOL

But if you've just driven there getting home is easy

One-way systems, etc make this slightly harder... Also the route you arrived via may not be the most efficient route back.

 

[kyser_soze]

Add home to your favourites list and when you want to go there, set as your destination?

 

[internetstalker]

One-way systems, etc make this slightly harder... Also the route you arrived via may not be the most efficient route back.

If theres one way systems then your prob in a town


with signs to the motorway, plain sailing from there

if your stuck in the middle of scotland, cornwall or east anglia where ther are no motorways there is generally major A roads insteads.


Road signs

map


brain


all you need

 

[kyser_soze]

If theres one way systems then your prob in a town


with signs to the motorway, plain sailing from there

if your stuck in the middle of scotland, cornwall or east anglia where ther are no motorways there is generally major A roads insteads.


Road signs

map


brain


all you need

I was kinda thinking this about the last few posts

 

[newbie]

Once you've set up a Bookmark it takes two key-presses on mine...

but those key presses come after getting the phone into its cradle, getting the charging sorted out, starting TomTom etc. None of it difficult but it's all a bit of a faff, all I was saying is I'd like it built into the car.

 

[wiskey]

I don't tend to use satnav because if I'm in a car I'll navigate, but its dead handy for telling you how long it will be until you get somewhere.

 

[newbie]

Not everyone goes to the same places all the time. Plus they can route you around trouble-spots.

that's the point isn't it. Driving down an mway the other day the signs were warning of long delays through three junctions, so when I hit near stationary traffic I took a chance and went into the services and, since fortune was smiling, found an 'authorised vehicles only' escape route onto a B road. Not having the faintest idea where it went or what I needed to do next, and knowing nothing about the locality, I was grateful for the box which, more or less seamlessly, got me through a couple of small towns and away, bypassing the whole jam. Of course it could have been done equally seamlessly by guesswork, or with a paper map, there's a much greater chance of that all going pearshaped.

 

[internetstalker]

that's the point isn't it. Driving down an mway the other day the signs were warning of long delays through three junctions, so when I hit near stationary traffic I took a chance and went into the services and, since fortune was smiling, found an 'authorised vehicles only' escape route onto a B road. Not having the faintest idea where it went or what I needed to do next, and knowing nothing about the locality, I was grateful for the box which, more or less seamlessly, got me through a couple of small towns and away, bypassing the whole jam. Of course it could have been done equally seamlessly by guesswork, or with a paper map, there's a much greater chance of that all going pearshaped.

Watford Gap??

 

[newbie]

M6, junction 3 ish, I think

 

[kabbes]

But... but... you weren't an authorised vehicle!

 

[newbie]

prove it! I issued myself an authorisation.

 

[kabbes]

You broke the rules. Breaking the rules is not allowed. I am telling.

 

[newbie]

There's a sign and a rising bollard. If I wasn't meant to do it the bollard would have been up. Clearly it was left down for a reason and they simply forgot to remove the sign.


Looking at a map I think it was Corley services on the M6 and I rejoined the M69, for that is where I was headed, at J1.