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From: Cynic on 26 Dec 2009 05:54 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:25:09 +0000, johannes <johs(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com> 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. Why? If it's a destination that you will not be visiting again, what does it matter so long as you get there and back without a hitch? -- Cynic
From: Cynic on 26 Dec 2009 06:05 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:36:48 GMT, James Martin(a)hgvu.com wrote: >>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 . So you prefer to take extra time to stop and ask, and then follow the instructions of a complete stranger who may or may not be able to supply accurate directions than a gadget that is programmed with a database that will in most cases be far more accurate. Doesn't seen sensible to me. In addition, there are few people to ask if you arrive somewhere at 4 AM. If you get lost at that time (perhaps because the last person you asked gave you incorrect directions), you have to drive around searching for an all-night garage, which may be miles away - and there is no guarantee that they will know where the place you are looking for is. -- Cynic
From: Cynic on 26 Dec 2009 06:08 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:42:57 +0000, johannes <johs(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com> wrote: >Do you have nice systems such as Google Maps and Google Earth? These can be >viewed in advance of a difficult journey. Memorise or print out as required. >Looking at a 4" screen while driving can't be any good. In fact it should be >outlawed, just like mobile phones. You have evidently not used one. You use the screen in about the same way as you use your speedometer and fuel guage. Or maybe you feel that those things are dangerous as well, and a "professional driver" has no need of them? -- Cynic
From: mechanic on 26 Dec 2009 06:13 On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:59:01 GMT, James wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:08:39 +0000, johannes > <johs(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com> wrote: >... >> As indicated, I don't need to stop every few hundred yards. And I >> don't read the instructions as I am driving. > Give up Johannes you will never win with these gadget freaks even if > their satnav's where taking them 200 miles from where they wanted to > go they would still be proclaiming they where bloody marvelous. These map-reader/memorise the route nutters might like to consider the following: driving up the A1 a week or so ago late at night there were road closures for maintenance/ resurfacing and traffic was diverted off the A1 onto the lanes of North Yorkshire with no diversion signs or other indications of ways round the obstruction. If one had no local geographic knowledge of the local towns and their relative positions, and no maps in the car, what then? Nightmare! -- mechanic
From: Cynic on 26 Dec 2009 06:21
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:50:01 -0000, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: >> You appear to believe that it is possible to select perfect drivers >> who will never make mistakes rather than accepting that mistakes are >> inevitable and attempting to reduce the consequences of such mistakes. >Hitting a low bridge isn't a "mistake" but sheer incompetency. Semantics. You could say the same about a person who sugars his tea twice. It is possible for a driver who is usually competant to make an incompetant mistake. The more experience you have, the less likely it is. Unfortunately it is not possible to demand that everyone who drives on the roads has thousands of hours of experience driving in diverse situations in the particular vehicle. -- Cynic |