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

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They only send you into a field anyway.

Complete waste of money.

did you make the string out of woven pubic hairs as well????

I loathe satnav, that feckin horrible bossy voice drives me insane and quite frankly makes me want to drive the other way just to spite it. Am far too rebellious for sat nav.

Not yet!

I would be lost without my sat nav

i do think if you can't read a map you shouldn't be driving though. but i've never tried a sat nav.

i quite like getting lost

hm,

She made it out of woven tampons. Get with it.

My FIL bought a satnav despite the fact that he only ever drives to Lidl, Morrisons and our house.

I have no idea why. I think he liked the sexy female voice.

OK, I challenge anyone to get from Ratoath,Co Meath to Lisbellaw, Co Fermanagh, without SatNav! Impossible, I tell you!

I agree - I can't get excited about satnav and I LOVE maps. I love the satisfaction of finding your way somewhere using a map. We have sat nav in my car but i NEVER use it.

ahem

I am quite intelligent enough to read a map, thank you. And unlike my husband I can do so without throwing up. I WILL own up to being a lazy sod though.

Anyway, seeing as I have the satnav anyway, it would be un-environmentally-friendly to eschew it in favour of A-Zs and printouts from Mapquest etc.

I want sat nav - I'm bored with printe=ing out a rain forest of bloody multimap then my printer runs out of ink then I drive along (dangerously) with the map folded so I can read it whilst holding it between little toe and toe next to it so that I can also steer indicate etc.

Its over-rated, I tell you. I WANT SAT NAV.

I do what misdee does - write out the basic directions

IN BIG LETTERS

and then have a multimap printout of the street I'm aiming at.

It works well most of the time (although we were stuffed aiming at Liverpool airport when one of the key roads was closed following an accident - but could satnav cope with that any better?)

WW, yes, satnav would cope with that better - you hit the screen, hit "avoid part of route", hit the bit you want to avoid and it recalculates it for you.

I love my satnav.

(and my lucky cheese, obv)

Mine was fitted as standard in my rather high spec car. Of course I ought to have ripped it out and left wires trailing out of the dashboard

And I can navigate with a map superbly well.

DH and I were driving round Wales about 14 years ago (when he was my boyfriend - aww!) and he swore blind I was taking him down a bridle path (fnar) - twas in fact exactly the right road to get us to our destination.

It takes me all my time to drive let alone read a map at the same time!!

My car has sat nav built in and I couldn't live without it now. Although I have to admit that I sometimes find it quite difficult to follow the sat nav

I used to try to read the multimap printout in the dark on some four lane highway in Spain with dh driving and shouting at me.

Last trip I told him I was driving and he was going to be reading the multimap printout...

he rushed straight out and bought a TomTom.

And hasn't stopped raving about how wonderful it is

Lapin, you and VVV's DH would get on SO well!

We'll see how well our sat nav works on Friday, Lapin!

My sister has dyslexia and dyspraxia - that means she can't read maps and gets lost very easily.

Satnav has meant she can be fully independant in her own car and has managed with the confidence gained from it got herself from down here (near London) to Newcastle and all over the country

and it's never taken her into a field or a river!