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Joined: Jul 21, 2004 Posts: 2718 Location: Chelmsford, UK
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:21 am Post subject: Family Kept Awake By Recurrent Sat Nav Blunders
Whilst sat nav blunders usually cause disruption to their drivers, one Scottish family are being routinely kept awake by errors as misguided motorists arrive at their home seeking directions.
According to a report, the family in Paisley are being woken by disgruntled drivers who have been misdirected to their farm house whilst attempting to locate long term parking for the nearby Glasgow Airport.
The family claim they receive as many as twenty-five lost drivers each day, with some knocking to ask for directions during the early hours of the morning.
For elderly residents Wilma and John Martin, both of whom are in their seventies, this proved highly stressful; with their disrupted sleep patterns prompting their daughter to move back home. It does beg the question why they didn't put a sign on their door!
Thankfully, local councils are finally pursuing action after two years of complaints from the Martins and Direct Parking, the organisation in charge of the parking site, who claim customers have missed flights because of the erroneous directions.
Whilst some of these mistakes can be attributed to driver ignorance, improvements to sat nav directions have been proposed as a viable way to address growing concerns: action which was discussed at the first sat nav summit in March.
Joined: Sep 06, 2006 Posts: 1618 Location: East Hertfordshire
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:50 am Post subject:
It would be interesting to know if these were postcode searches. I was misdirected to the wrong village a couple of years ago, because the official directions to the church we were going to gave the wrong postcode - it was only when I checked against the big board outside the church (once I'd found the place ) itself that I found two characters had been swapped around. At least we didn't miss the wedding! _________________ David
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Joined: Apr 14, 2010 Posts: 1262 Location: West London
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:19 pm Post subject:
What an opportunity - set aside a field and charge £25 a day per car. Employ a night worker. Lovely Jubbly! _________________ Mike R [aka Wyvern46]
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