can't always trust sat nav

[stevet]

http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/upload/82089-never-trust-sat-nav.html

 

:rofl:

[solder_guy]

http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/upload/82089-never-trust-sat-nav.html

 

:rofl:

 

Pretty funny! Sat Nav is just another luxury distraction. :ack:

 

Nothing like a good map! Low tech.

 

Rob

 

[scannon]

I wouldn't trust it either. A sat nav in a new Elise sent a friend out of his way and down 5 miles of dirt road to get to my place. Even then it showed my place about a mile from where it actually is. It would have been a lot quicker (and cleaner) to use the directions I sent him by email.

 

Mapquest isn't much better. I printed a map of Greeley, CO and spent 45 minutes trying to find an address which turned out to be quite a distance from where the map said it was. The street didn't even exist where the map said it should as that was in the middle of a large park.

[stevet]

There was also the (infamous) story of the German driver recently who drove through a wall because the sat nav told him to