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can't you fucking norks think for yourselves and read maps. do you facking need a computer to give you directions. i have expcetional directional spacial awarenes and i have no need to travel the world with Sat nav in my ford fiesta. why why why. sat nav. jeesus what next, wireless personality - get your personality ANYWHERE from MY database.
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What difference does it make if i use sat nav or have to pull over every 5 minutes to check a map when i'm somewhere i don't know. It's only jerks who blindly follow the gps and end up going over a cliff who need to be slapped.
I have maps in my car, and I use maps, but if I'm going on a journey I don't know by myself I'll use the satnav kit at home. Far safer than me peering over at a map.
Seriously, I prefer looking at maps and deciding myself what the best way to go is. The TomToms always seem to send me in stupid directions (case in point being the satnavs don't recognise the shiny dual carriageway into town, and send people miles out of the way)
I had to drive my dad's car with it on the other day and bloody annoyed me especially when he kept on insisting i drive faster because the road was straight even though i couldn't see it.
No idea where the original poster lives BUT in London the roads can be well complex, and it's far safer then trying to read a map on your own in a moving car.
I can read a map too. Try reading one however, whilst driving through central London.
Sat Nav is safer and quicker than reading a map on the move.
Unless it was printed very recently, you get that problem with maps not pointing out shiny dual carriageways either ...
A friends' boyfriend took me to a gig last week in Wolves - it kept on telling us to either go the wrong way or take turns we couldn't take for one reason or another.:rolleyes:
They're not perfect, but they're a lot better then being without, you need to use a certain amount of common sense and see that the places it's telling you to go are appropriate but they will get better especially once Europe launches it's own sat nav system and we don't have to rely on the 20 year old American GPS system.
I've used Sat Nav to get me from London to Wales, and it's not the main places that hard to get to - it's the tiny back streets, etc that you'd never know about.
I've used Sat Nav in times when my usual route has been closed off and it's gotten me home through winding streets I never knew existed.
I would expect that one would be very useful for inner-city streets and the like, where there are sometimes hardly any decent signposts and it's too crowded and busy to use a map safely.