Satellite Navigation Systems.....bad?

moonrakerz

A colleague of mine picked up a hire car in Germany, complete with sat-nav, and thinking his German was better than it actually was, instructed it to direct him to his destination some 80km away. After he had passed the same garage 4 times it dawned on him that he had told it to take him to the nearest Audi dealer !!!

chrisw

Whits wrote: »

In my job as a delivery driver, I use a TomTom in my truck.

Whilst it can be invaluable at getting me to places, it's one real drawback is that it's designed for cars not larger vehicles. Consequently, I often have to ignore it when it tries to send me down a road with a low bridge.

A program on the TV recently featured a truck driver who had contacted TomTom and asked if they would do a truck version and they said they weren't interested as there wouldn't be enough demand :rolleyes: My company uses around 500 GPS systems and we would be incredibly happy to get a truckers version :j

There are a few free low-bridge downloads, but for £15 this looks like what you need:

http://www.tomtompoi.net/