Tonight with Trev

MarkHewitt · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject: Tonight with Trev

Just a heads up for this Friday 12th May ITV1 at 8.00pm

Subject is "aren't sat navs rubbish", or similar.

MarkHewitt · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject:

Just a reminder that this is on tonight

NEWS: Tonight With Trevor McDonald
Channel: ITV1 Tyne Tees 103
Date: Friday 12th May 2006
Time: 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM (starting this evening)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Tearing Up the Road Map.
As satellite navigation systems revolutionise driving on Britain's roads, Linda Duberley investigates the pitfalls of relying on technology to get us from place to place.
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 4 Star)

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nej · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

I wonder if this is going to be full of the idiots who, as my uncle puts it when the lorries get stuck down the narrow road near where he lives in Cornwall, "switch on sat-nav and switch off brain".

RobBrady · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:

nivek22 · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject:

How can they compare a lone driver with a passenger map reading?

It doesn't matter how good at map reading you are if you're driving.

RobBrady · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

SatNav has its faults for sure, but the comparisons made beggared belief!
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avolee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 4

Watching that joke of a report made me cringe, she uses sat nav from her home, whilst the other car has a profesional map reader, on her second trip, whilst moaning constantly about the traffic jams she keeps getting stuck in, she arrives a whole ten minutes behind the other car, well excuse me then but doesn`t that mean she would have arrived first if the traffic had not been so bad. Then of course you have people who drive through villages and rivers causing caos, anyone who drives into a river deserves everything they get, but the ones complaining about the villages and damaged bridge, did they check all those cars for sat nav, or assuming that everyone who drives through that village has sat nav. Maybe all sat navs should have goverment health warnings, Warning..must not be used without common sense.

Skippy · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject:

avolee

I'm pretty much in agreement here. The girl using the sat nav was a confessed technophobe and she used it for a whole week. They didn't say how many miles she did, but if what we saw was the worst they could come up with then the sat nav came out pretty well.

The one where she turned left into the carpark was a classic one. "In 90 yards turn left onto the A60". Note that the voice said the A60. Did that little road look like an A road to you? Nope.

Of course the best thing is that you can scream abuse at the sat nav, stupid damned thing is absolutely useless while it calmly tells you to turn around and get back on the correct route. If you were trying to read a map and made that mistake then you would feed pretty stupid.

As for getting stuck in the traffic jam, that was a laugh. She arrived 10 minutes late in a 150 minute/120 mile journey. So her average speed was 48 MPH. Can't have been in the traffic jam for long then...

The fording of the river was due to the main road being closed. Surely they would have sensible diversion signs in place so people would take the correct route? Sat nav equipped or otherwise.

I'm sure that for every village that is blighted by traffic caused by sat nav systems routing people through it, there are 10 which have less traffic because people don't get lost and come pootling through the back roads.

Overall it wasn't such a bad piece, we knew it would have to slag off the sat nav or it would be seen as a blatant infomercial for for TomTom.

As for the "programming your sat nav while on the move is dangerous" angle, well get a grip. Is it any different to someone trying to tap out a text message on a mobile (in a car cradle holder) while on the move? Nope. Nothing new there guys, you don't need to be a brainiac to figure that one out.
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PatC · Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject:

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