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

[(Anonymous)]

I don't remember ever having someone put the postcode in wrong, but we have had a few people put the village name in, and then go to the wrong place because there are two of them, one in Devon, one in Cornwall - the Devon one is slightly bigger so comes up first in lists.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

adaese's mother lives on P***** Road, which is part of the A404. The first time I went to see adaese there, she gave me very detailed instructions, which I didn't really listen to once I'd found it on the map.

Er, it turns out I found the other P***** Road that's part of the A404 ...