I’m Divorcing My Sat Nav

Thursday, 23. June 2016

Sat. Nav’s are great, I wouldn’t be without mine having thrown out my AA map book many years ago but there are times when you wish you had your old map book in the car instead of the bloody sat nav, especially when you are just about to join the end of a queue of stationary traffic.

They are a little better these days, especially if my system has found a major delay on say the M25 (now run by NCP I believe) it will announce that due to heavy congestion it has created another route. Which is fine but the problem arises when you can see the orange cars on the screen, a few miles ahead, turn red, just as you reach a turning that should take you away from the congestion.

So off you toodle expecting the system to recalculate an alternative route. Oh no – that would be too much to ask. For the next 20 miles it constantly tries to get you back to where you turned off the original route. It will even try to fool you by not telling you to do a U turn but sends you off down a single track B road.

At this point you need to zoom out cos I’ll guarantee that it is about to send you completely round the houses to where you left the original route an hour ago! There are now parts of London that I know better than most black cab drivers!

So manufacturers who are designing undesirable things into new cars such as hair dryers and heated gear knobs please turn your attention back to Sat Nav’s because if that bloody woman keeps trying to get me back to where I’ve purposely driven away from I’m filing for a divorce! PS. Second thoughts don’t ditch the hair dryer! By Graham Hill

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