Satellite Navigation Units cause crashes
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Satellite Navigation Units cause crashes
I can see the government banning the use of these in cars .....
Sat-nav blamed for 300,000 crashes - Yahoo! News UK
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Sat-nav blamed for 300,000 crashes - Yahoo! News UK
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Be alright if the ****ing stupid cow giving you directions had a basic grasp of driving terminology.
Instead of "Come of at the next junction, then turn right at the roundabout"", she says" Carry straight on, then, bear to the left,and stay to the right"
Instead of "Come of at the next junction, then turn right at the roundabout"", she says" Carry straight on, then, bear to the left,and stay to the right"
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Before the days of Sat-Nav I rolled into the back of someone whilst trying to read a map in the queue for a roundabout (no damage luckily ).
Does that count?
Does that count?
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On a positive note, it should help thwarp any NL ideas to use sat nav to control vehicles (speeds etc.) as the systems clearly get things wrong.
won't stop them really but certainly adds to the case against it.
won't stop them really but certainly adds to the case against it.
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With the places some people plonk them on the windscreen its not suprising
I stick mine* on the drivers side corner of the windscreen, not slap bang in the middle. That way its closer to my eyes, and is roughly the same focus distance as the dash guages and it doesn't block the view ahead.
*its not mine; I don't own one - but I do borrow one on occasions.
I stick mine* on the drivers side corner of the windscreen, not slap bang in the middle. That way its closer to my eyes, and is roughly the same focus distance as the dash guages and it doesn't block the view ahead.
*its not mine; I don't own one - but I do borrow one on occasions.
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With the places some people plonk them on the windscreen its not suprising
I stick mine* on the drivers side corner of the windscreen, not slap bang in the middle. That way its closer to my eyes, and is roughly the same focus distance as the dash guages and it doesn't block the view ahead.
*its not mine; I don't own one - but I do borrow one on occasions.
I stick mine* on the drivers side corner of the windscreen, not slap bang in the middle. That way its closer to my eyes, and is roughly the same focus distance as the dash guages and it doesn't block the view ahead.
*its not mine; I don't own one - but I do borrow one on occasions.
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There was a similar "problem" when ABS systems became standard fitment on cars, people were driving in to the rears of other cars, the drivers blaming the ABS system. Of course, it was idiot drivers were the "cause".
I do accept that sat nav systems can be a distraction, like radios, cellphones, kids and pets etc, but ultimately, it's down to driver skill.
PS. I actually don't like ABS systems because I can stop quicker in almost all road conditions without it (Trained to do it before the days of ABS being standard).
I do accept that sat nav systems can be a distraction, like radios, cellphones, kids and pets etc, but ultimately, it's down to driver skill.
PS. I actually don't like ABS systems because I can stop quicker in almost all road conditions without it (Trained to do it before the days of ABS being standard).
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Prefer maps myself.
Sat Navs seem to send your brain to mush.
Some people don't even actually know how they got to somewhere or where that place is in the country,they just 'followed the sat nav'
Sat Navs seem to send your brain to mush.
Some people don't even actually know how they got to somewhere or where that place is in the country,they just 'followed the sat nav'
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Sound's like u've got a pretty cr@p sat nav then
My biatch knows what a roundabout is... even tells me which exit I need AND tells me which of the exits are "no exits"
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I'd bet good money that drivers looking down to a map on the passenger seat or wherever leads to a lot more crashes than SatNav is being blamed for....
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I once removed the near side mirror from the van I was driving while holding a map over the steering wheel.
I suspect that while people have accidents using them they on the whole mean the driver is less distracted and more able to focus on hazards, at least that's my experience of before and after the sat nav revolution.
I suspect that while people have accidents using them they on the whole mean the driver is less distracted and more able to focus on hazards, at least that's my experience of before and after the sat nav revolution.
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Me too
Although my mind will suck a map route in one big gulp: I visualise my route in my head in a toplogical manner like in GTA 1 (the original overhead view version)...just without the killing or the car-jacking
I often find Sat navs don't send you the most effective route to avoid congested/slower routes. Good example for me is Birmingham to Lincoln: Every sat nav I have tred sends me up the M42-->A42 etc Where the quicker route is the M6-->M69 (even if its slightly further). Taking the M42 route will put about 30mins onto the journey time (depending on traffic).
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did you hear the one about the romanian lorry driver delivering cars from gibraltar to turkey this week? he tw@t-navved his way onto the wrong road in gib and ended up stuck down a narrow lane near ... skegness in lincs. an error of 1,600 miles.
blind faith in technology despite the evidence of your own eyes will get you nowhere ...
blind faith in technology despite the evidence of your own eyes will get you nowhere ...
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More often than not you then know which roads you need to get to where eg my 200 mile trip to devon was not complicated
m5 to Taunton
Taunton to Bideford
Atlantic Highway and keep those eyes peeled for the village where you are going
Sat nav would have got right on my pap for all those miles.Probably only quiet on the m5 apart from lots of 'keep right' instructions.Duh
Sat Nav can be handy say in a city and you have no A-Z otherwise,nah.
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Apart from the people who can't pay attention to the road whilst using Satellite Navigation I think it is great.
Last year I went to Poland: I typed an address in from my house in East Sussex and 1200 miles later was there. I was extremely impressed.
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Last year I went to Poland: I typed an address in from my house in East Sussex and 1200 miles later was there. I was extremely impressed.
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And with a Garmin unit you can reprogram the voices. Great fun, instead of saying "recalculating" my wife's voice says "Pay Attention, stupid!".
Edit: Just looked and can't find the program anymore.
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Edit: Just looked and can't find the program anymore.
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Maybe we should remove all driver aids from cars as they all contribute to acidents.
ABS - I don't need to look at the road ahead, as I know I can panic brake and the system will save me whatever the road conditions. I can use a 'phone, do my makeup etc and if I have to brake late the ABS will stop me
Traction control / stability control - I can hoof it everywhere in any conditions and the car will save me
Airbags - If the above two systems do fail to save me, the airbags and seatbelts will prevent me being killed.
How about we install a sodding great spike in the steering wheel and when you crash it impales you? That may prevent people from crashing
Blaming it on satnav is the biggest load of twaddle since "I promise I won't com....."
ABS - I don't need to look at the road ahead, as I know I can panic brake and the system will save me whatever the road conditions. I can use a 'phone, do my makeup etc and if I have to brake late the ABS will stop me
Traction control / stability control - I can hoof it everywhere in any conditions and the car will save me
Airbags - If the above two systems do fail to save me, the airbags and seatbelts will prevent me being killed.
How about we install a sodding great spike in the steering wheel and when you crash it impales you? That may prevent people from crashing
Blaming it on satnav is the biggest load of twaddle since "I promise I won't com....."
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Is it really a driver aid in the same category as the things you mention though? It is a device telling you where to go,nothing to do with the car's abilities
Its like this new device where the car parks itself for you....are people really that crap at parking they can't fit the car in between two others?
Certain devices are not advances....they are just things for the lazy and I reckon we really are going backwards sometimes in what people think are huge steps forward and 'must have' devices.
Getting from one place to another is not rocket science
Its like this new device where the car parks itself for you....are people really that crap at parking they can't fit the car in between two others?
Certain devices are not advances....they are just things for the lazy and I reckon we really are going backwards sometimes in what people think are huge steps forward and 'must have' devices.
Getting from one place to another is not rocket science