To think people who own a Sat Nav are lazy sods or just probably not intelligent enough to read a map?

[GordontheGopher]

They only send you into a field anyway.

Complete waste of money.

i hate sat nav.

give me a map anyday.

Depends if you are travelling alone - difficult to read a map and drive at the same time.

i can't drive and read a map and i am (reasonably) intelligent

I like satnav. I have competitions with the pompous woman on the computer and argue with her about the most appropriate route to take. I always win . We got the sat nav for sailing as it is also a chart plotter which is very useful.

Also, satnav means I can go to sleep when I get bored of arguing with the satnav woman (and DH is driving) so yes YABU.

My step dad is a gadget freak anyway he got satnav and we all had to hear about it, what it does bored the pants off us.

He hardly ever goes anywhere that a) he's never been to before and b) is 15 miles from his hometown.

Anyway he now doesn't use it as he doesn't agree with the ways it sends him and the voice annoys my Mum

I think it good for people who drive a lot of miles etc but not for people like me who do supermarket/nursery runs.

Yes

I might be persuaded if you could have a famous person doing the voice. Sean Connery. Hmmmm.

I love my Tom Tom (I also teach geography).

John CLeese does the voice on mine

now, that MUST tempt you

I got a Sat Nav recently. It is fab.

Like today - went to take DD to a friends house who lives about 20 minutes or so from us, out in the country. No idea how to get there. A to Z didn't go that far out. Could have put it on multimap and printed but then you hav to keep referring, esp as lots of twists and turns on narrow county lanes with national speed limits. Sat Nav just made the whole thing easier and safer too. And it got me there directly, no problem.

Oh, and I can read a map; Have navigated through parts of Western Europe by map a few times, all fine.

But driving and map reading at once can be dangerous stuff. Sat Nav definitely can help with that.

So for unfamiliar and new routes - yes, I'll stick to my new Sat nav - whilst also noting traffic signs and common sense - so hopefully no random fields en route.

No. But people who try to read a map while driving are probably not very intelligent.

i cant drive so i dont know about sat navs

i am educated to post grad level, yet maps defeat me....it is nothing to do with intelligence!! i also have jon cleese as my voice, although i am wanting to down load new york taxi driver!

My sat nav hates Wales and Cornwall, but it loves dcs friends' houses! (ap.?)

don't knock the satnav. it saved my marriage

Please explain!

i can read maps beautifully but it can make me a bit car sick. and they are really fun, i love when it gets upset if you go another way.

DH and I argue quite badly, as we are both bad at reading maps, and further more, my DH refuses to turn around when a wrong exit/turn is taken, and expects me to locate the correct new exit/junction/turning under pressure with him yelling.

He would prefer to drive to scotland than stop or turn round.

So when we were in USA we had sat nav. Bliss, no arguing. Until we got to San Francisco. Then the sat nav went nuts, left on Smith Av, Right on Smith Av, Right on, no left on, no right on, no er.....AAAAAAGH! Then we had a mother of all rows!

i have to drive somewhere new at least a couple of times a week for my job and i love love love my satnav. can't read a map for toffee (especially not balanced on a steering wheel when the lights have turned green and someone's honking at you and you're already late and you start gettin the sweats). it's a genius bit of technology.

It's not easy reading a map while you're driving

there speaks a gopher who has never geocached

Who said I read a map while I'm driving? I memorise the route and stop if I get lost (I never get lost).

I also find looking at road signs helps .

good for traffic jams etc planning new routes
dp has imported sexy bitch voices onto his.
Do a u turn baby, but not too fast. And big boy take me with you....
yeah pass me the gun...

I love my sat nav. I frequently go to places that I don't know, and it means that I'm not worrying about following written instructions when in a city centre.

It also means that I can divert to somewhere else whilst out, and not have to worry.

And I can read maps perfectly well thank you - just don't want a car full of A-Zs

I am a superb map reader.

I can't however do it whilst driving.

Therefore SatNav is fab if I am going somewhere new!