http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7518493.stm
Doh !
I have a sat nav, and it's very useful - but they still require the user to engage his/her brain!
[Edited on 6/3/09 by David Jenkins]
What a total muppet
Just don't ring some of these silly sods up while they're ironing
Cheers
Chris 
That is something worth putting on the news!
Sat navs require a good sense of direction and a rough idea of where you are going before they can be really useful. On work trips to the mainland
mine has saved me hours of wrong turns and asking directions.
I find mine useful on the motorways, especially the M25. The junctions I use the most (A12 and M4) come up all of a sudden, so it's nice to have them shouted out a few miles in advance - I don't have to be distracted through looking for signs.
Mine has sent me down some little country roads before now. Didn't fill me with confidence at the time until I looked at the map and it was the
most direct route 
When I first got mine (quite some time ago) ... she told me to "continue straight on", so I did ... straight across a crossroads where I
didn't have priority. I went through at about 50, realised what I had just done and shat myself (almost).
They do take a bit of concentration still 
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Originally posted by RoadkillUK
... she told me
I have John Cleese telling me where to go and sometimes end up arguing with him as he does try to send me wrong way down our one way street when I get home. He very often says now turn left when I'm sat at traffic lights so you do have to use your own observation and not blindly follow. Also don't use Shortest route setting as it does some stupid things like take you down farm tracks with no tarmac and through fords in flood (good job I was in a high vehicle)
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Originally posted by Simon
quote:
Originally posted by RoadkillUK
... she told me
"She!!!"
Hasn't SHE got a name
When on holiday in Malaysia a few weeks back, ours decided to take us on a 'short cut' through some large quarry/cement factory type place.
Dead interesting it was too but we did get some funny looks from the lorry drivers and a few other workers! Had to give up stubbornly following the
GPS when it looked like we might have a good chance of getting squashed by heavy plant.
The Malaysia GPS maps we have are put together by an online community sort of effort. I couldn't help but imagine some quarry worker driving
through the site with the GPS tracking turned on, and eagerly contributing his track to the community - as if that would be really helpful. Wonder
how many other tourists have been lured in there...
Liam