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Toggy tea slurper · Guest

Stupid cow Rolling Eyes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6646331.stm

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

And (at the risk of a trip to the naughty step) they say that women are the safer drivers Rolling Eyes

they certainly cannot navigate (speaking from personal experience of both my wife and my mother)
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Toggy tea slurper · Guest

I'm not a very good navigator but I do know that if my tom tom tells me to drive over a cliff, onto a railway line or into a ditch then it's best to ignore it. Laughing

Commonsense seems to desert some people when using sat nav. Rolling Eyes

Cherskiy · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

"Turn right ahead and drive off the big cliff 200m infront of you...."

The telling phrase is: "If maybe I had been more aware of the situation, I wouldn't have had the accident." No, seriously? Shocked

Some people aren't safe to be let behind the wheel of a car. No wonder car insurance is so expensive. Rolling Eyes

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Rachel · Guest

It is possible <blush>( when somewhere really unfamiliar) to get into a mode where you just blindly follow the sat-nav instructions......I did end up in a Tesco's car park in Hove once. The map in my sat-nav is a couple of years out of date ... it was a new Tescos..........I had to pay to get out!

Cherskiy · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

And that's the whole point regarding why satnavs are dangerous - you end up relying upon them instead of using an up-to-date map or reading road signs, and thinking for yourself. Any deviation and you end up trusting the machine, thinking "well, it must be giving me the right directions" - right up until it leads you up a mountain track in Scotland, over a farm level-crossing in Wales or into Tesco's car park in Hove! Smile

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Mrs W uses SatNav---I don't care for it myself. Provided it's backed up with a bit of common sense, it can be a very useful tool.

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seymourwhitebits · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Birmingham

can't beat a map Twisted Evil

people just put blind faith in these things then blame them for making them turn onto bloomin railway tracks. how thick do you have to be not to realise that turning onto the track cannot be right Rolling Eyes

its scary that these people are driving on the same roads as me Shocked

well until they follow their sat-nav that is Laughing

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