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It takes a special kind of daft to keep on going in the face of all visual clues telling you it's wrong, yet blindly relying on technology to know better.

 

Yet every year locally vans and cars get wedged in streets that are too narrow, steep or unsuitably surfaced, and those lovely hard-working HGV drivers from the continent who were too tight to buy the HGV edition of TomTom and somehow can't read simple signage get wedged between buildings or can't turn round.

 

As a race we're doomed :) 

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5 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

It takes a special kind of daft to keep on going in the face of all visual clues telling you it's wrong, yet blindly relying on technology to know better.

 

To see what happens when drivers ignore signs, take a look at http://11foot8.com/

(The bridge has been raised to 12foot4, but is still taking prisoners).

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First Satnav I ever had was on an old Nokia Communicator phone. It either lost the signal or blew a gasket somewhere in Manchester once, screen went blank for a moment and then came up with the message "You are lost". Made me laugh, even in Manchester. Days when programmers had a sense of humour.

 

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Long ago I had a sat nav with the recorded voice of John Cleese ...he would make quips throughout and at appropriate signals....  "bear left ...beaver right"  and if I missed a junction he would say in exasperated  tones "for heavens sake turn around and get it right this time"   at the close of journey he said  "you have arrived, you can get out now but I am not going to carry your bags"  

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We had a car turn right on a level crossing and drive onto the railway line in stead of turning right as soon as they had gone over the crossing.

 

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Sat-nav puts driver on rail line
A takeaway delivery driver caused train delays after he misunderstood sat-nav directions and drove onto a railway line in Suffolk.

The foreign student, 26, turned onto the tracks instead of a small road just after a level crossing at Oulton Broad.

His car then got stuck between a cattle grid and track, Suffolk Police said.

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8 minutes ago, Chagall said:

Long ago I had a sat nav with the recorded voice of John Cleese ...he would make quips throughout and at appropriate signals....  "bear left ...beaver right"  and if I missed a junction he would say in exasperated  tones "for heavens sake turn around and get it right this time"   at the close of journey he said  "you have arrived, you can get out now but I am not going to carry your bags"  

 

in the early days of TomTom it was possible, with a bit of patience, to make your own custom voices (only 59 files to record and trim down).

 

i still use the one i made for a southern friend occasionally on my ageing TomTom Go 550 Live :D 

 

 

 

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