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Been so lost on the way back from pvs lol , yea i know its abit late but havent had much time to get on. anyone else get really lost?
I know one thing im getting satnav and not following Jack lol
Been so lost on the way back from pvs lol , yea i know its abit late but havent had much time to get on. anyone else get really lost?
I know one thing im getting satnav and not following Jack lol
You need a satnav to tell you when to get onto the M5 from the M4? lol
No for when i follow jack and realise that he has gone past when we needed to carry on then was to bloody late and got very lost and ended up in a domestic with the misses lol
craig green
23-06-10, 10:59 PM
LOL BIGS. You struggled to get to Pod those couple years ago aswell.
Satnavs are great, but you cant beat a small atlas permanently residing in your glove box either, for when it all goes Pete Tong.
Btw. I got a spare Garmin Sat Nav FS cheap.
didn't you just follow the sun?????
satnavs are ****...... they send you to the nearest motorway no matter what.... and put huge amounts on a journey time......why??? i hear you ask... because they send everyone the same bloody way... with a map, you can devise a different route... and why does everyone choose the female voice, when they won't trust a woman to give them directions........
Satnavs are great, but you cant beat a small atlas permanently residing in your glove box either, for when it all goes Pete Tong.
You have an Atlas in the car? lol
'At the next continent, turn left, and then in 3000 miles, you have reached your destination'
I just have visions of you fiddling with a globe on your passenger seat lol
You have an Atlas in the car? lol
'At the next continent, turn left, and then in 3000 miles, you have reached your destination'
I just have visions of you fiddling with a globe on your passenger seat lol
lollollol
lol I know Craig and the year before that i left plymouth 3am and got to pod at 1pm :roll: :eek:
Might have to see you about that satnav :thumb:
lol I know Craig and the year before that i left plymouth 3am and got to pod at 1pm :roll: :eek:
lollol that is almost sig worthy lol
craig green
23-06-10, 11:04 PM
I just have visions of you fiddling with a globe on your passenger seat lol
Only when theres female in the car......
Road Atlas man! :p
satnavs are ****...... they send you to the nearest motorway no matter what.... and put huge amounts on a journey time......why??? i hear you ask... because they send everyone the same bloody way... with a map, you can devise a different route... and why does everyone choose the female voice, when they won't trust a woman to give them directions........
Do you want me to train you how to use a satnav properly? lol
And I have Picard telling me where to go, its more fun going the wrong way and being scolded 'You have strayed into the beta quadrant' lol
lol I know Craig and the year before that i left plymouth 3am and got to pod at 1pm :roll: :eek:
Might have to see you about that satnav :thumb:
thats a lot of piss stops.... in a lorry at 56mph, it is 5 hrs driving.......
Do you want me to train you how to use a satnav properly? lol
And I have Picard telling me where to go, its more fun going the wrong way and being scolded 'You have strayed into the beta quadrant' lol
lee, i have daily battles with lorry drivers over why they have gone on stoopid diversions..... mostly thru the congestion charge zone and find out the satnav has told them to turn off the free zones then back on.... the drivers just get into this mindset that the satnav knows best... when, there are restrictions, weight & height limits, roadworks, and other huge delays, mostly caused by everyone going the same bloody way..............
i can navigate round this sceptred isle without a satnav thankyou
craig green
23-06-10, 11:11 PM
I dont think sat navs are **it at all. They have shown Jack & myself some OK routs back from shows instead of the typical A-road & M4 yawn fest home from Northampton. If you are knackered & just wanna get home from wherever it was you arrived but have since been pished & sunstroked, just tap in the post code for home & follow it.
But, having a small 'map' in the glovebox is well advised, for the reasons you say & for avoiding tailbacks or finding interesting cross country routes.
I dislike maps because invariably you will end up stopping somewhere inappropriate to study it.
craig, forward planning, and memory are useful tools to avoid satnav reliance...also listening to traffic bulletins helps..... and a sneaky look at the abd website for cameras too..
in fact the only good use for a satnav i have is to get camera bleeps
craig, forward planning, and memory are useful tools to avoid satnav reliance...also listening to traffic bulletins helps..... and a sneaky look at the abd website for cameras too..
in fact the only good use for a satnav i have is to get camera bleeps
Erm, a satnav IS a fecking map.
Yes, if you just blindly program it to take you home the way it wants, it can be a real pain, but if you spend a few minutes plotting the route you want to take, it is awesome.
As I said Mike, do you want me to teach you how to use it properly? lol
craig green
23-06-10, 11:20 PM
I'll certainly carry on like I am. I'll openly admit I'm sh*t with directions. If I ever ask someone, it literally goes away from me as soon as I drive on. Local knowledge always helps, being familiar with your route ie shows etc helps & crappy UK road signs certainly dont IMO.
Erm, a satnav IS a fecking map.
Yes, if you just blindly program it to take you home the way it wants, it can be a real pain, but if you spend a few minutes plotting the route you want to take, it is awesome.
As I said Mike, do you want me to teach you how to use it properly? lol
lee. don't need one, don't want one. end of.....
i look at a road map & decide, ok, i'll go to a, followed by b and onto c.
i take maybe a minute to do that... i don't then tap it into the satnav.... i'm already on my way.. call it a gift if you will, i call it years of driving trucks before satnavs appeared..
lee. don't need one, don't want one. end of.....
i look at a road map & decide, ok, i'll go to a, followed by b and onto c.
i take maybe a minute to do that... i don't then tap it into the satnav.... i'm already on my way.. call it a gift if you will, i call it years of driving trucks before satnavs appeared..
Now you sound like the old grandad who can't programme the video lol
Now you sound like the old grandad who can't programme the video lol
when our family got our first vhs, i set it to record & went out. i returned to find my mum & brother sitting in the lounge with no tv or video on.. when i enquired why, they told me that it started making a really odd noise, so they unplugged the tv & video incase it blew up & set the house on fire......so i made a special sign that i put in a prominent place to warn them i had set it... my brother still doesn't grasp the concept of the video.. about 2 years ago i had to explain for the hundredth time that you can watch a different channel when recording a program
ps. i have to use a navman sat nav/tracking/sms fleet system from my office pc it is a necessary evil..
Satnavs are great if you know how to use them. As Lee said use it like a map and plot your own route and they can be a godsend in a truck. Much better then trying to look at a map while chucking a 44 ton truck round a round about.
LMFAO dan, I said to Hayley about a mile before the M4 junction "if I come off here I bet dan will follow" lol
We went across that roundabout at Foxhill thinking you could see us go straight across, then you disappeared. Figured you'd seen a sign to the M5 and followed that... unfortunately that would have taken you a real ar$e-end way to get to it. I was going to text you to say follow me to Yeovil and go from there (Yeovil > A303 > Exeter > Plymouth) but my phone battery was dead :(
satnavs are ****...... they send you to the nearest motorway no matter what.... and put huge amounts on a journey time......why??? i hear you ask... because they send everyone the same bloody way... with a map, you can devise a different route...
Thats only mugwumps who don't know how to modify the route from the "send me the way every dickcheese goes" option lol There are certain roads round here that you see all the truck drivers using because they haven't picked the option to stick to main roads, simply plotted the fastest route. So they end up going down little twisty country lanes and wonder why I get annoyed when I come face to face with them and nowhere to pass.
Best use for satnav IMO is as a reference guide for on the fly direction changes, not as a blindly-follow-instructions unit. I rarely follow it arrow by arrow, but it is very useful if I end up somewhere I'm not familiar with where there's heavy traffic, or at a diversion (example, mine helped me avoid a big queue atop the M5 coming back from PVS).
Much much easier than remembering a list of towns to hop back through on a journey.
jack, 99% of the people slap a postcode in & get going......and the 1% actually buy a decent one & play with the route, or in my words, spend £100 on a glorified map, when the aa do them for a fiver...... the only bit a satnav is good for is the last mile or so to get you into the address.
jack, 99% of the people slap a postcode in & get going......
Yeah, thats true. Unfortunately those people also follow them arrow for arrow, and are the types to blame the satnav that told them to turn left into a river or whatever so they followed it :roll:
Computers (that goes for satnavs too!) are only as good as the cabbage thats sat in front of them!
the river incident happened about 5 miles from me..... 90 grand merc went for a swim
Man-Nav FTW (also known as gut-nav when hungry)
I only get the last 1-2miles of a new journey printed from google maps. The rest is just done on the fly/bit of guesstimation. Always works fine.
I do enjoy fecking with satnav on the odd occasion its been 'used' by going the wrong way to what it asks lol
georgiebaby
24-06-10, 01:38 PM
No for when i follow jack and realise that he has gone past when we needed to carry on then was to bloody late and got very lost and ended up in a domestic with the misses lol
Erm well i did say that we shouldnt follow him all the way home, and im certain we shouldnt have followed everyone off the slip road! but NO im always wrong! haha lol lol i was going to ask jack if he would invite us in for a cuppa!
jack, 99% of the people slap a postcode in & get going......and the 1% actually buy a decent one & play with the route, or in my words, spend £100 on a glorified map, when the aa do them for a fiver...... the only bit a satnav is good for is the last mile or so to get you into the address.
Some people can't read maps properly either, that also doesnt mean the map itself is crap.
Bad workmen always blame the tools.
Southie
24-06-10, 02:13 PM
http://www.marktoon.co.uk/cartoons/marktoon-sat-nav-accident-gag.gif
Some people can't read maps properly either, that also doesnt mean the map itself is crap.
Bad workmen always blame the tools.
Lee, the main difference is that the road map (or atlas) doesn't suggest the 'best route'
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