ArishMell · 70-79, M
Mine manages to restrain itself from saying,
"I didn't expect the roundabout's third exit to be a new one only just built." (To a building-site.)
"When I said ' Take the next left' I didn't mean that 'next left' but the next 'next left'." (As I turn round in the industrial-estate)
"You've still taken the wrong third exit and left turn". I guessed as much, as we entered the road/rail goods terminal.
"It's not my fault the road's closed." (road-works)
"Why can't I put you back onto the closed road?"
"Huh! You expect me to do all the work when you have a road-atlas in the car?"
Or simply...
"You're lost? So am I!"
"I didn't expect the roundabout's third exit to be a new one only just built." (To a building-site.)
"When I said ' Take the next left' I didn't mean that 'next left' but the next 'next left'." (As I turn round in the industrial-estate)
"You've still taken the wrong third exit and left turn". I guessed as much, as we entered the road/rail goods terminal.
"It's not my fault the road's closed." (road-works)
"Why can't I put you back onto the closed road?"
"Huh! You expect me to do all the work when you have a road-atlas in the car?"
Or simply...
"You're lost? So am I!"
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Sazzio I use either method, depending on need. I very rarely make journeys that need a sat-nav., and then usually only for the last part of the trip.
Those are all based on real incidents!
I have been caught a few times by new exits from roundabouts onto roads not yet on the service's maps.
The industrial-estate and goods-terminal diversions were in a very busy, cramped, confusing city with heavy traffic and complicated junctions close together, and no signs to the venue; and I was overtaking the instrument's re-calculation rate.
The "road closed" was in a cross-country route to shorten the last section of a trip, and avoid a very difficult motorway / main road junction. I had to switch the device off, drive to the next village, locate this in the atlas, so determine a suitable continuation. Once far enough beyond the road-works I could use the sat-nav for the last several miles.
One one trip to a totally unfamiliar area, it made me turned right into a housing-estate. Then, "next left", "next left"... the estate was rectilinear. So "turn right":, said the lady-in-the-box, Aye, back onto the original main road and direction, but now by crossing the traffic about fifty yards from a blind bend! I have no idea why these things should do this. I suppose they can't always pinpoint your location accurately enough.
I don't take a compass on car journeys but have occasionally used the Sun, Moon or prominent stars to indicate the approximate general direction. I'd take a proper map and compass if on a long walk in unfamiliar, especially difficult, countryside.
Those are all based on real incidents!
I have been caught a few times by new exits from roundabouts onto roads not yet on the service's maps.
The industrial-estate and goods-terminal diversions were in a very busy, cramped, confusing city with heavy traffic and complicated junctions close together, and no signs to the venue; and I was overtaking the instrument's re-calculation rate.
The "road closed" was in a cross-country route to shorten the last section of a trip, and avoid a very difficult motorway / main road junction. I had to switch the device off, drive to the next village, locate this in the atlas, so determine a suitable continuation. Once far enough beyond the road-works I could use the sat-nav for the last several miles.
One one trip to a totally unfamiliar area, it made me turned right into a housing-estate. Then, "next left", "next left"... the estate was rectilinear. So "turn right":, said the lady-in-the-box, Aye, back onto the original main road and direction, but now by crossing the traffic about fifty yards from a blind bend! I have no idea why these things should do this. I suppose they can't always pinpoint your location accurately enough.
I don't take a compass on car journeys but have occasionally used the Sun, Moon or prominent stars to indicate the approximate general direction. I'd take a proper map and compass if on a long walk in unfamiliar, especially difficult, countryside.
