sat nav with avoid motorway setting?

Lum

I think it's more common sense than savvy. If you have some idiot in your passenger seat who tells you to turn left and it's a no entry or a railway track or a canal or blocked off by bollards, you ignore them an go somewhere else.

Why does this change when the idiot in the passenger seat with the map is replaced by the idiot stuck to your windscreen with a map?

cyclonebri1

tomstickland wrote: »

Memorise the main details, occasionally stop to look, sometimes take a sneaky look as driving.[/QUOTE]


There rests the case for the satnav defence;);).

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cyclonebri1 wrote: »

There rests the case for the satnav defence;);).

...and you never look at the Sat Nav screen whilst driving?...:p

Lum

A correctly positioned satnav screen will be more like an instrument. To look at a map you either need to be looking at the passenger seat, or actually pick the thing up and hold it against the steering wheel.

cyclonebri1

Inactive wrote: »

...and you never look at the Sat Nav screen whilst driving?...:p

yes mate, along with the speedo ;);), can even peel an orange with my toes:D

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Lum wrote: »

A correctly positioned satnav screen will be more like an instrument.

Whilst blocking part of the view of the road.:)

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cyclonebri1 wrote: »

yes mate, along with the speedo ;);), can even peel an orange with my toes:D

:rotfl:;)........

anewman

I generally occasionally follow the single track routes shown by sat nav just to try going somewhere different for a change. I think the issue is the sat nav thinks you can get up to 60mph along them when in nearly all cases you're lucky to be near half that

Lum

Inactive wrote: »

Whilst blocking part of the view of the road.:)

I said correctly positioned.

Mine blocks my view of my own bonnet, and I know what that looks like already.

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Lum wrote: »

I said correctly positioned.

Mine blocks my view of my own bonnet, and I know what that looks like already.

If it is fitted to the screen, as most are, it restricts some forward visibility.:)