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.

Piffle please give me a link to that .

No one said you read a map when driving gopher.

Just that it's not a very intelligent thing to do, and that Satnav is a much more sensible alternative. But then that's bloody obvious.

"Please turn around when possible!" over and over again. This is the only bit that drives me mad - I have not gone that one for a reason you know!!!

Sat navs are useful even for "regular" trips - if you take a wrong turn, or if there's roadworks/accident etc up ahead they'll redirect you a different route

Yes YABU, sat nav is ace. I hate boring old maps, and SN takes all the stress out of driving somewhere you've never been before.

I can read a map and road signs perfectly well, it's not easy though when you arrive in a city you've never been to before to find the house you are looking for.

Oh and you're more likely to get your car broken into if you've got one.

Not if you take it with you and make sure it doesn't leave a ring on the windscreen gopher.

Yes, you are right. All sat nav owners are both lazy and stupid

not unless you leave it in the car!!!!!

In the hills and villages around here, Sat Nav causes big problems - lorry drivers use it to find the quickest routes and end up in the middle of narrow lanes in tiny villages, crashing through people's walls...
Also, we live in town but our town is such that nobody we know with SatNav has ever found our house with it!

What a palaver.

just got one for my birthday.

I can read a map perfectly well, thank you very much, BUT Glasgow's one way system cannot be negociated whilst reading a map. Dh is crap at map reading, so I cannot rely on him!

Also, satnav, can tell you where you are, if you're lost. DH can't.

not really - takes about 1 minute

didn't even use to take H a minute to take it off the windscreen and remove mark off the window.....

Not that I am calling my in-laws lazy and stupid... but I couldn't help laughing when having spent the entire lunch trying to persuade DH that he needed one, they proceeded to pull over en route to their flat...

Their satnav had apparently stopped talking to them and they couldn't even work out where they were. FFS this is where they live!

I think it takes away people's perception of where they are.

Ours came with the car, we've never bothered to update it and it doesn't recognise new roads -it goes nuts around my SIL's where they've built a new bypass & it thinks it's in the middle of a field.

It has a female voice, which always loses the final t on words, so it says righ' and roundabou' - drives DH potty

Chuck me in Pedants' Corner; far too many commas!

Exactly FAQ

AIBU to think that this thread is both lazy and stupid?

sexy bitch sylvia is from the tomtom website... You can also have Aussie birds too.
men soooo utterly predictable

Well, I'm an old-school traditionalist. Before I ever did more than basic hikes, I took a few orienteering classes.

I see SatNav as just a tool to be in conjunction with the map.

I mean, hell, grunts in the Army can use maps, so just about anyone can.

I have one, and use it - it saves vital brain cells which are being used in other ways - what I mean is, it stops me having to think about whre I have to go IYKWIM

most people i know have sat nav. sorry, read that as most men i know have sat nav. even though it always ends up taking them thorugh the busiest traffic.
personallhy, i would rather have a map.

it works better if yo uturn off the sound. then it is just a map that goes with you.