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From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 18:02 In article <4B35313B.5C9447E3(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com>, johannes says... > It doesn't, but you don't have to. As I said it's the difference between being a > passenger and a driver. Do London Taxi drivers use satnav? The Private Hire ones do. Outside of London they do. In fact, the only ones that don't are the black cabs. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 18:09 In article <1jfaj59u3jb3bqei2csubefo4tfkroc3hk(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > > On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:19:16 -0000, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > >In article <3ge9j5dm2tmkbdn207b0ftdikrjc3f3t2j(a)4ax.com>, James > >Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > > > >> Then why spend money on a satnav if you are still going to have to > >> carry a map about with you ? I do not carry a map about with me anyway > >> I look at it before leaving home if I need to. > > > >So you know where every single street is in every single town you ever > >go to? And what if you have to divert because of an incident? > No but I have a tongue in my head and I have never been to lazy to get > out of the cab or car and ask someone . Riight, bullshitter. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: johannes on 25 Dec 2009 18:08 Conor wrote: > > In article <4B352FD2.8E5A447C(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com>, johannes > says... > > > > Conor wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > > > If driving London from one side to the other, I would probably use M25 for > > a large part, or major trunk roads planned in advance from home. Detailed > > directions isn't really necessary until you get closer to your destination. > > Only then I begin to look out for landmarks and possibly stop to consult > > the printouts. > > Would you now like to answer the question? As indicated, I don't need to stop every few hundred yards. And I don't read the instructions as I am driving.
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 18:10 In article <4B3545F7.C648F5CF(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com>, johannes says... > As indicated, I don't need to stop every few hundred yards. And I don't read > the instructions as I am driving. So how do you navigate through built up areas you don't know? -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: NM on 25 Dec 2009 18:30
On 25 Dec, 22:43, James Mar...(a)hgvu.com wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:38:59 -0000, "Mr X" <inva...(a)invalid.com> > wrote: > > > > > > >"johannes" <j...(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com> wrote in message > >news:4B352FD2.8E5A447C(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com... > > >> Conor wrote: > > >>> In article <4B34E4D8.EDA4...(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? > > >> If driving London from one side to the other, I would probably use M25 for > >> a large part, or major trunk roads planned in advance from home. Detailed > >> directions isn't really necessary until you get closer to your > >> destination. > >> Only then I begin to look out for landmarks and possibly stop to consult > >> the printouts. > >So why not follow a satnav and allow you to concentrate on the road rather > >than looking for landmarks or stopping places to consult a map, something > >that is hard on a red route! > >I remember driving to a destination in Bristol with a SatNav. I'd never > >been there before and it was so simple it was almost beautiful. Compared to > >what it used to be like, messing about with maps or arguing with passengers > >who were meant to be reading the things. > > For myself it is much much cheaper to do it my way than spend money on > a satnav and just as easy . When I was temping before I bought my sat nav I had to carry a sachel of streetmaps as I never knew where I would be sent that was very heavy and was very expensive. A sat nav is a darn sight cheaper than all that paper and dosen't detoriate so easily, also it can be easily and cheaply updated. Any navigation device is to be used as a guide, if you drive up a train track it's because you didn't use your brain, that's not the sat nav's fault. |