Don't trust your satellite navigation systems

[Bill V]

 

[A1cntrler]

And this is why there are annoying screens that pop up that you must select OK at prior to using the nav system. Every time... I believe these stories. It is a shame that the operators blame the nav systems for thier stupidity. I think there was a commercial on here recently that had a similar incident in it. A man was driving down the street listening to his nav system give instruction. The system said "Turn right" so he immediately did right into a storefront and then the system finished the sentence "in 500 feet"..



I like to think of this as an evolutionary step. Those without common sense are trying to be weeded out so that they cannot reproduce, but because we have made the world safer, the non common sense people are allowed to continue to reproduce...



Survival of the fittest....

 

[Rodger Tellefson]

It's called "Put brain in gear". We always use a paper map to back us up. In case anyone does not know; a GPS, for civilian use, is only good to 3 meters, only the Feds can have one to get as close as a nats butt.

 

[Todd Z]

Dont even get me started on this topic !!! :angry::angry::angry::angry:

 

[Pat Freeman]

Near where I grew up, my AVIC-Z1 wanted me to deliberately go down a 1 way street the wrong way and even told me to make a U-turn when I ignored it. When using it in an area where I was unfamiliar, it had me take a road that dead-ended at a railroad for YEARS, according to one local resident. Apparently, the GPS map had a continued line for that road and never segmented it for the railroad, even though railroad track lines were put there, so the GPS assumed it was a RR crossing, when it was not. I had to turn around and wasted time. It also tells me (in audito) to go West on I-795 to head toward Baltimore but indicates that I need to go East. You can't trust these units with your life.

 

[Kerry Matthews]

I've got the voice command on my D1 turned way down, so I don't have to listen to it give me the wrong directions. I look at the map and make my own driving decisions. And yes, I have used mine a couple of times... They're good at finding the new g/f's house for the first time without getting lost!

 

[WXMotorSports DecalsPartsAccs]

Don't have one and Yahoo Maps 100% correct so far for me.

 

[Brian Curry]

SHS: abbrv. Stupid Human Syndrome, every one has it, some worse than others. Some are doomed at birth, some later in life.

 

[A K]

I find it is much more useful for the ability to be a moving map than a navigation device. I enjoy exploring with it, using it as nothing more than a paper map that constantly maintains my position.



As for navigation capabilities, I once was attempting to take back roads to north central PA. I could not find one road. I stopped and asked a gentleman cutting his grass. His response: "That road hasn't been cared for in over 40 years." It was nothing more than a single lane, game commission-like road with canopy cover and nearly no pass-bys if 4x4s came the other way. Really, really fun road, but sure as hell not something it should use as a navigation route.

 

[Nelson Atwell]

My brother's Lexus has Nav. It doesn't have his home address in the database. His house was built 10 years ago.



My fiancee's Volvo has Nav. When you set it to go to the local Volvo dealership, it directs you to a street with the same name in Moore, OK -- not OKC.

 

[Gavin Allan]

Wife's new Subaru's system has copyright 2001 on the DVD. Subaru says a new (updated) DVD will be released in April. Think it will be free? (IF SHOULD, IF THE CAR IS UNDER WARRANTY...)

 

[Greg Bosin]

My Kenwood/Garmin system has been great. I just had to set it to avoid secondary streets or roads or it will have you use some of these roads that are no longer serviceable or accessible.

 

[Michael Hale]

Recent article posted online through a news source told of an ambulance service who plugged in the address for a local 10" transfer across town. They ended up at a hospital 2 hours away since neither EMT had been to the scheduled facility.