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From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 16:20 In article <cc5aj59om3183j2e65282nlemmco36780n(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > No but I am more than able to find my way around the UK without having > to employ the use of some useless gadget that has had people driving > into rivers,along railway tracks, and god only knows what else . Satnavs don't force people to drive into rivers and along railway tracks. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 16:27 In article <4B34E4D8.EDA47A4(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com>, johannes says... > So far my system has worked well. Google maps gives the logical route and > Google Earth provides the particular landmarks to look out for. So when you're driving through say London from one side to the other, do you stop after every turn and then every few hundred yards or do you read the instructions as you're driving? -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: johannes on 25 Dec 2009 16:25 Mr X wrote: > [...] > No I've never been a professional driver and nor do I want to be. > I love driving, thanks to all the gadgets in my car. > Sat Nav is great and I'm sure that in the future there will be a way of > connecting it so the car drives itself to the destination with the driver > only having to intervene now and again, rather like a autopilot on a plane. > As you dislike modernity so much why do you own a car when you have two good > legs? I prefer to 'understand' the route rather than being passively directed to the destination. E.g. when I am a passenger, then I easily looses the route because I don't have to know. But afterwards I feel frustrated by not knowing the exact route.
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 16:25 In article <6u5aj5505sd4f80hlmie70hvv6ca0sa03s(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... ] > So you are not a professional driver and have never been one I have been a professional driver. I've racked up over 1.8 million miles up and down the UK as one. Satnav is a wonderful thing. It is far better than having to carry a massive box of A to Z's about which cost �500+ and don't have anywhere near the coverage. It is also far safer navigating by one than driving down the road trying to follow the route you'd planned over several pages with the A to Z you're holding in one hand at the same time as steering with the other whilst trying to read street names as well as see where you're going. Satnav has never forced me to drive into rivers, down railway lines, down roads too narrow nor under bridges too low. It has suggested one or two of those things but strangely, I seem to possess a power you don't - the one to be able to think for myself and work out I can't follow a particular instruction or that its unsuitable. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 16:28
In article <too9j59361hmq9eg49p0lt3b9c4losuipk(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > > Exactly Johannes only problem is the law makers in this country are > very good at making these laws BUT no good at ensuring that the police > prosecute offenders, regarding mobile phones very difficult but very > simple regarding satnavs all it needs is wording to the effect that if > a satnav can be seen in a vehicle working or not a prosecution should > automatically follow. You have never ever been a commercial driver. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. |