.. to think people who do not have a map in their car and rely on satnav are fools...

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......... I await the flaming

One of the things I really like about my Satnav is that it makes it so easy to answer tedious questions from the back about the remaining time of the journey or the arrival time.

I just read off the time/time left from the display in a completely dead-pan voice.

i love my satnav

we cuddle in bed

ah jane and her bossy voice

Oooh I LOVE our sat nav. I am not a confident driver at all, and its so reassuring for me to be told where to go.

But generally I do look the whole route up before and have a map book in the car.

If I don't want to go the way the sat nav tells me I just go the way I want and it catches up...

I love satnav. I'd dumbly drive off a cliff if it told me to.

I have no sense of direction, love being told reassuringly what to do, and am incompetent with maps, despite my geography O level.

I've set mine to the Kiwi bloke (Paul?). It's a subliminal reminder to DH that we should move to NZ sooner rather than later.
I love satnav but rely on the road atlas for the bigger picture.

I had john cleese for one journey before I wanted to throw it out the window

I am tempted by all these voices...I think it would frighten me to death to suddenly hear a voice from the dashboard, though!

Totally agree with OP! Just had argument with OH over this very point. We He has TomTom downloaded onto his PDA. Last year when we went to France he relied on Satnav. It crashed, we ended up blindly driving round the outskirts of Paris trying to find Stade de France. Had it been my car we'd been in, we'd have found a map in the pocket on the back of the passenger seat. But no. His car has more helpful items such as a hard hat (?!)

Just booked last minute trip to France again this year. He thinks we don't need a map as well, just the Satnav. Oh and the laptop and software CD so we can reload it should it crash again.

JUST TAKE THE FRICKING MAP AS WELL!!!!

Satnav is great for 'real time' directions, you don't need to stop and check the map so much.
I do like to have a paper backup though.

Ever tried reading a map, when driving on your own, in the dark, and finding yourself unexpectedly having to divert off the route because of a road closure? There's room for both IMHO.

Part of the 'fun' of journeys is DH shouting 'which exit?' at previously unvisited roundabouts, and me sayomg - 'It's not on the ,map - just go straight on!'

We always reach our destination. I pride myself on not having to turn the map upside down.

A particulary fun time is had in the North Devon countryside (no roundabouts but unnumbered hedgerowed roads aplenty........)

PS I love the A-Z. My sister once met the woman who 'designed' it. She walked every road in London! Like the map of the underground it is a cartographic icon.

YANBU. Satnavs are for idiots, especially in the UK.

I have both - satnav and map.

I do like the satnav, especially when driving on my own in unfamiliar places. Means I don't have to try to balance a map on the steerng wheel - just feels safer somewhat.

But I have a map so I can figure out where I am and where I am going too. Mind you that wouldn't help me once I was within a town or anything. In that case I tend to have some written directions taken from the net as well, just in case.

Just found our way round the Czech Republic with use of maps only. Was interesting at times, lol - but we got there!

We used to laff at sav nav people, specially when my cousin took the piss on a recent holiday. We went in a 3 car convoy and my OH was the lead car on the way there. Cousin went on and on about his sat nav which would have got us there a lot quicker so on the return journey home he took the lead.

We exited the car part and he turned right. About 100 yards later he did a 3 point turn with all of us following and there was much mirth .

We managed to lose them on the motorway cos he drives like an F1 driver so OH got out his trusty map again, and we managed to beat him home. Again there was much mirth

But we inherited a free one at the weekend when OH's stepdad bought a new one and gave us his old one and OH is having fun with it, although we'd never leave the trusty map at home

DH has one and I refer to it as Sat Nag or 'Your Other Wife'.

I used it recently and it was pretty good but DH annoys me intensely by insisting on using it when we don't need to. We were driving from Dublin to Cork earlier this month and he insisted on setting even though I was driving and I sodding well know how to get to Cork!

LunarSea, yes I have. Fair point. It's not easy. Lots of pulling over and checking map- again!- then driving 3minutes, then pulling over to check map....

Still would not want a satnav though. I could not blindly follow it if it was sending me on a detour. No way Jose!

I might reluctantly accept there might be room for both a satnav and a map..... very begrudgingly.

But I shall continue to live anachronistically, as a 27yr old shunning all these newfangled techno contraptions...

I like both, but the SatNav is my friend because I have a habit of just driving in roughly the right direction, relying on seeing roadsigns pointing to places that I know are near to my destination. It usually works, but with the SatNav, if it doesn't, the handy little GPS guides me back to safety .

Dcs love watching the SatNav, but usually question whether I'm following it or ignoring it (usually ignore at the beginning when I know better cutthroughs) If I driving with DH it saves arguements as he has a habit of telling me to turn just that little bit to late to actually do it whereas annoying SatNav lady will tell me well in advance and remind me 5 or 6 times before we reach it.....

We find Satnav quite useful.

What I do find rather worrying though is when men's competitive instinct kicks in, and they feel impelled to constantly race to reduce Tomtom's ETA.

YANBU. I hate them and refuse offers from DP to borrow his. Drives me mad when we're in his car and he puts it on even for a route he already knows. Though at least he's changed it to a UK accent now rather than the very exaggerated Austraaaylian one he used to have as a "joke". "You have reeeached your destinaaaaytion".

I actually like map-reading too and feel quite proud of my reputation for having a cabbie's knowledge of London roads, picked up from using A-Zs.

dh taught me basic map reading skills, and that kinda helps...only problem is when I say go left here, and he goes right, because he gets his lefts and rights mixed up sometimes...
but a sa nav would not help there neither...

dh taught me basic map reading skills, and that kinda helps...only problem is when I say go left here, and he goes right, because he gets his lefts and rights mixed up sometimes...
but a sa nav would not help there neither...