Turbo2

As I was leaving the M1 Northbound at Milton Keynes yesterday, this old bloke in an 8-10 year old sat-nav equipped Volvo V70 diesel came barrelling off the middle lane and up the slipway a couple of hundred metres in front of me. Nothing unusual in that, but then he suddenly stopped dead two-thirds of the way up the slip road, where it splits due to roadworks: left to MK, right to Newport Pagnell. I have to stop directly behind him. Not only does he not know where he's going, he's also talking on his hand-held phone so presumably can't hear where his sat-nav is telling him to go. Anyway he then joins the roundabout above the M1 towards NP in the direction that I'm heading and stops in the queue of traffic at the red traffic lights there. He's so busy gassing down the phone that he doesn't see them go green, so gets a beep on the horn and then off we go again. He then drives the next mile or so up the single-carriageway A509 at about 70mph drifting from one side of the road to the other as he battled with the controls of his Sat-Nav and telephone and so another beep was required to get his mind back on the road! We then got to the roundabout just south of NP which he cautiously joined at 1mph and promptly stopped dead a third of the way round! I could see it coming so kept well away and nipped past him and never saw him again, but the other traffic joining the roundabout must have wondered what the hell he was up to! I wonder if he ever got to where he was going without causing an accident? Old man + modern technology + car =

Leslie

Old or young, a lot of people do that sort of thing, and they want "stuffing".

Les

speedking

How many times have I seen people 'guided' by sat nav into someone's driveway or farm track, only to re-emerge a couple of minutes later and take the correct turn 100m further up the road

Kieran_Burns

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I love the bit where the Sat Nav breaks down and the driver has utterly no idea where the hell they are

they've just been blindly following the instructions with no involvement in the decision making process, so there is no association with the location.

Maps don't help as they truly have no idea of their location. If anyone in a car asks you "where am I?" rather than "how do I get to?" You know what's happened.

I once got shouted at by a guy cos I simply answered his question.

He says "where is xxxx road?"
I replied "stick your head out the window"
He looks a bit confused but does so
"look down"
He did
"Tada!"

He then shouted at me for not just telling him... some people...

Claaarkio

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LOL

Clarebabes

I think I would have been with him, sarcasm, the lowest form of wit

Kieran_Burns

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Hey I was 16 at the time and there was a bloody street sign about 100 yards down the road

I could mention the time this incredibly rude and arrogant guy demanded directions.

I think I sent him about 20 miles from where he needed to be.

New_scooby_04

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And wit, my dear, is the highest form of intelligence!

Ns "George Bernard Shaw" 04

Clarebabes