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  • LydiaJ
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    A question for NP who know about satnavs...

    When my car was off the road a little while ago, I had a hire car with a satnav. I found it pretty useless compared with the satnav app on my phone. My phone can use my data allowance to get live traffic information and advise me which of several routes will be fastest considering the traffic of the moment. The car's satnav couldn't do that. Does this mean that when I eventually stop driving FIL's old car and get a replacement for myself, then even if it's got a satnav it won't be worth using, or is there a way to make car satnavs find out about traffic?
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  • Pyxis
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    A question for NP who know about satnavs...

    When my car was off the road a little while ago, I had a hire car with a satnav. I found it pretty useless compared with the satnav app on my phone. My phone can use my data allowance to get live traffic information and advise me which of several routes will be fastest considering the traffic of the moment. The car's satnav couldn't do that. Does this mean that when I eventually stop driving FIL's old car and get a replacement for myself, then even if it's got a satnav it won't be worth using, or is there a way to make car satnavs find out about traffic?

    Dunno. :(
    My satnav's made of paper and doesn't say anything. :(
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  • PasturesNew
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    If/when they change the driving test to include being able to use a satnav... will old duffers like me be banned from the road because "those old folks know where they're going, using magic called maps and memory.... ban them all, they're dangerous". A world full of people that pre-plan and know what they're doing/where they're going... where will things end??
  • Pyxis
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    If/when they change the driving test to include being able to use a satnav... will old duffers like me be banned from the road because "those old folks know where they're going, using magic called maps and memory.... ban them all, they're dangerous". A world full of people that pre-plan and know what they're doing/where they're going... where will things end??

    I tell you when it would b useful, though, and that's when you're stuck in a long tailback, not knowing what the hell is going on or how long it's all going to be.

    Knowing you've got a two-hour wait is better than having a two-hour wait and not knowing, iyswim.
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  • chris_m
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Does this mean that when I eventually stop driving FIL's old car and get a replacement for myself, then even if it's got a satnav it won't be worth using, or is there a way to make car satnavs find out about traffic?

    I think some do - using some form of radio broadcast traffic info, I think. Others might well be tapping into the likes of Google.
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    If/when they change the driving test to include being able to use a satnav... will old duffers like me be banned from the road because "those old folks know where they're going, using magic called maps and memory.... ban them all, they're dangerous".

    Nope - because you passed your test before it was a requirement.
    You'll just have to make sure you behave yourself and don't get a ban followed by a mandatory retest :rotfl:
  • chris_m
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    I tell you when it would b useful, though, and that's when you're stuck in a long tailback, not knowing what the hell is going on or how long it's all going to be.

    They are also very useful when driving an unfamiliar road in the dark - giving you some idea of what the road will do around the next bend.
  • Pyxis
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    chris_m wrote: »
    They are also very useful when driving an unfamiliar road in the dark - giving you some idea of what the road will do around the next bend.

    Of course, in my car, I could just deploy the ASDIC.
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  • Pyxis
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    Or get my TravBat to emit a few clicks.
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  • chris_m
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Of course, in my car, I could just deploy the ASDIC.

    How very 1930s :p:p:p
    Pyxis wrote: »
    Or get my TravBat to emit a few clicks.

    That's more like it :T:T:T
  • Pyxis
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    chris_m wrote: »
    How very 1930s :p:p:p



    That's more like it :T:T:T

    The old and the new!

    Combining experience with innovation! :D





    Actually........ that would make a pretty good strapline! :D

    You heard it here first, folks!
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