Reasons I do not want a satnav

[bunn]

I've just had a call from a bloke who is coming to our house to fix something.  He said he was going to follow his satnav to the village, which he confidently pronounces is 10 minutes away from his current location.

10 minutes later: panicky call: " Help!  Where am I!  I'm in a wood!'   Discussion concludes that his satnav has directed him to the wrong side of the river and  he is, therefore,  in the wrong county.   What's more, on enquiry it turned out that he did actually know where the village was, roughly - only because the satnav told him, he went another way.  Why do people believe what computers tell them, so confidingly?

If he has not been eaten by beavers, I expect another call when he gets to the pub, because satnav is no use in a village that only has one postcode anyway.

Give me a map any time.

Comments

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

The post code for my work address used to direct people to the other side of the major road about mile or so north west of where we really are. It now directs people to about half-a-mile north of were we are. OK, the little estate has only been here for about four years, but still.

I like gadgets and stuff like that, but give me a map and stuff your satnav. As far as I'm concerned a car with one in is a car not worth buying.

A couple of years ago I and my boss had to go to somewhere in the middle of northern Nottinghamshire. We used the sat nave in his car, were directed north up the M1, then south down the A1M. The next time we went I said lets come off at (IIRC) M1 J18 and head east. We saved 45 minutes!