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From: Ivor Jones on 20 Dec 2009 19:49 On 20/12/09 22:46, James Martin(a)hgvu.com wrote: [snip] > I am able to find my way to most places in the UK having driven trough > most places at some time or other in the course of my employment and > now if I want to locate a street or whatever I stop at the first > police station, post office, and ask I am not to lazy to get out of > the car. > I do not like to have voices in my ears when driving I don't even have > the radio on I like to solely concentrate on my driving perhaps that > is why I have 48 years accident free driving under my belt . You are Ron Chew and ICMFP. Ivor
From: Neil Williams on 21 Dec 2009 02:24 On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:16:06 +0000, johnwright <""john\"@no spam here.com"> wrote: >Very true. The Tom Tom I use when coming from a particular direction >tries to send me home via a farm track that is only in use by tractors >and people like me walking dogs. No sane person would ever take anything >short of a tractor down that track. Which anyone with any sense would notice, and ignore the sat-nav's directions, at which point it would recalculate and give something else. You could even use its software to report the issue. The trouble is that there are idiots who just blindly follow the directions, however stupid they are. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the at to reply.
From: Ian Dalziel on 21 Dec 2009 02:51 On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:16:06 +0000, johnwright <""john\"@no spam here.com"> wrote: >S wrote: >> On Dec 13, 1:58 pm, Ray Keattch <r.keattch5...(a)btinternet.com> wrote: >>> mike scott wrote: >>>> alexander.keys1 wrote: >>>>> On 11 Dec, 20:09, Chris Tolley <cj.tol...(a)bogus.co.uk (ukonline >>>>> really)> wrote: >>>>> "A double-decker bus carrying children on a school trip has had >>>>>> its roof torn off after crashing into a bridge in Leicester. >>>> .... >>>>> height marked in the cab? Those that I've seen do. What happened? >>>> Satnav in use? >>> Why satnav? >> >> Satnav has the effect of turning the driver's brain off, so lorries go >> down narrow country lanes clearly marked as unsuitable for them and >> get stuck, because that's the shortest route the satnav finds. > >Very true. The Tom Tom I use when coming from a particular direction >tries to send me home via a farm track that is only in use by tractors >and people like me walking dogs. No sane person would ever take anything >short of a tractor down that track. Presumably you are posting from your vehicle stuck on a farm track, then? Otherwise it isn't very true at all, is it? -- Ian D
From: Conor on 21 Dec 2009 05:23 In article <7p73pkF9lvU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Ivor Jones says... > Those well publicised cases where satnavs have taken lorry drivers along > narrow country lanes etc. are due entirely to the failure of the driver > to program them correctly. > Is the wrong answer. > My unit has different settings for car, bus, lorry etc. and will avoid > roads which are not suitable for large vehicles as long as they are set > correctly. That'll be the one that got slated on the truck driving forums for doing exactly the opposite. > > As has been > said, if the driver is too thick to set the thing properly > then that's his/her fault/problem. They are *extremely* useful when > riding a motorcycle where it is difficult to consult a map easily. > You cannot "set them properly" for a lorry or a bus. Even the supposed dedicated HGV ones aren't much cop. For example, there's far more than 1500 low bridges but only Network Rail has a database the mappers can accesss. Local authorities seem to not know. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 21 Dec 2009 05:24
In article <5kati51pchv9hkehm9nvd59bcphhst2mc9(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > I did a few years ago why do you think I am so against them Here's a clue...THINGS MOVE ON. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. |