Just found this... and laughed my head off. Just a month ago I was a passenger in a car that had a sat-nav, and we took a new (just opened two or three months ago) road that wasn't in its memory (or however they work). It let us cut a corner, so to speak, and from the moment we went onto that road until we rejoined what it thought was the right road, it kept saying "Turn right. Turn right. Turn right!" in a tone of voice that I'd swear was getting more and more irate and I'd even go as far as say panicked. Turning right was going to take us through a solid barrier and onto the other carriageway...
And we all know stories about sat-navs that have taken big vehicles down roads totally unsuitable for them. I can sympathise with Mr Polk - Garmina clearly wasn't programmed properly - but it's one reason I prefer to stick with a map :-)
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Date: 2013-04-08 10:47 am (UTC)And we all know stories about sat-navs that have taken big vehicles down roads totally unsuitable for them. I can sympathise with Mr Polk - Garmina clearly wasn't programmed properly - but it's one reason I prefer to stick with a map :-)