My toyota avensis came with satellite navigation as standard. It is pretty accurate, though sometimes it goes a bit "funny", eg telling me to go left instead of right, or maybe thinks I am somewhere I am not (say out by half a mile, but infrequent).
I am generally happy with it and it has turned out to be useful. Most people are amazed by it.
Does anybody else have sat nav on their cars? What cars are they and is the sat nav any good.
FfwlCymraeg, who admits he bought the gadget not the car!
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i have a user friendly route displayer, its called a road map and it only cost me £2.99
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Yes but can you use it when you are driving by yourself?
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stop by the side of the road and look at it, i want to know where i am going, not just rely on another bit of electrical junk.
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I am frequently out by half a mile or more and often say left when I mean right.
Seems its OK for a satnav system but not for a girlfriend. Male chauvinism or what?
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Not at all, it's just we've come to expect such high standards in other fields :-)
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Toyota's latest combines sat nav with traffic avoidance. See Corolla from 2002 entry in car by car breakdown for brief details. The system is also now available on the Avensis.
HJ
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I asked this question ages ago and got a null points.
Don't know how relevant this is but currently using the Hertz system based on a Magellan unit.
Its actually rather good, seems to know when the road is dual with no potential to turn left so it sends you round the block instead of a left turn. The accuracy with which it pinpoints the junction is amazing, not just by the map, but with voice instructions and a ping as you approach the actual turn about 25 yds in front.
It must not only have accurate positioning but a very accurate digital map. If you zoom in (when in passenger seat!) you get all the twists and turns out on the country roads. Quite frankly I wonder if UK digital mapping is up to it?
The advantage for me is that once its programmed a significant extra proportion of driver attention can be paid to driving instead of route finding. Reckon it is a contribution to road safety providing you do not play with it on the move.
Also its position finding is excellent. Reading the conversation between the guy who went off the road which resulted in the Selby train crash it was obvious he had no idea exactly where he was on the M62. That would be most of us if using a mobile as opposed to the roadside emergency phones.
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i am trying to sell my electronic map on yahoo auctions, the reserve is £100.
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Why would I want to pay £100 for a electronic map that I can buy for £2.99?
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the electronic map is something that i got for a present, but i prefer an old fashioned paper map.
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Friend was showing his off. I thought I knew which road out of Guildford I wanted to take, but his system sent us on a different one, and round two sides of a triangle. Don't think we avoided any traffic, either. When said friend consulted the map on the system, it didn't seem to know about a bridge over the river.
And our current house shares the name of a large MOD establishment, the other side of the city. We get some of their post, don't know what they do with ours. Talking to the postman, he told us that one day, a car pulled up outside our house as he made his delivery. A lady got out and asked him if this was X. When he said it was, she was very pleased as she was late for a meeting. Unfortunately, wrong X. She was a bit upset, as she'd typed the name into her SatNav system, and ours was the only address which popped up.
These things are no substitue for common sense!
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Sue,
*Very* impressed to know your house is substantial enough to be mistaken for an MOD establishment.
David
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David Woollard wrote:
> *Very* impressed to know your house is substantial enough to
> be mistaken for an MOD establishment.
Only by a half-wit who knows no geography and has never been to any MOD site before. Unless she thought the postman was security? This description seems to include staff at the local sorting office, although the postman who delivers recognises that a lot of the post he sticks through the door is not for us. However, it has our postcode on, and is in his sack, so what can he do???
Also, if you go round the back of our house the bright pink caravan might indicate that links to the MOD or anything official were unlikely.
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FfwlCymraeg wrote:
> It is pretty accurate, though sometimes it goes a bit
> "funny", eg telling me to go left instead of right,
I've noticed this when getting directions from some web-site maps, particularly in relation to motorway junctions. My other half says this is because you always turn left to leave a motorway, but I find it very confusing!
And does your new toy tell you the number of the junction you leave at? This is another thing which frustrates me with these directions: 'keep driving along the M4 to Junction 13' makes more sense to me than 'drive 55 miles along the M4' - especially as the 55 miles is split into the distances between junctions!
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<<<<<< And does your new toy tell you the number of the junction you leave at? This is another thing which frustrates me with these directions: 'keep driving along the M4 to Junction 13' makes more sense to me than 'drive 55 miles along the M4' - especially as the 55 miles is split into the distances between junctions! >>>>>>
It doesnt say the junction number, but it is displayed on the screen with a left arrow and the distance to the motorway junction.
You do need common sense though.
Driving eastwards along M56 past Stanlow towards Runcorn, destination Liverpool.
Voice says "Take next exit left towards Norwich"
Obviously it means "Northwich" but that's good enough. So the synthesized voice cannot say it's worms correctly ( (c) Ronnie Barker ).
I may also have exaggerated the half-mile error. It's no more than 100 yards having thought about it. Generally pretty good though.
The traffic thing intrigues me though. I always thought it had this in as well. Why? Well it sometimes gives different directions for the same journey without me having changed any of the inputs (speed etc).
Sometimes A to B will go via C, sometimes via D. Little to choose between the two routes though. I haven't figured out why this happens, but I always suspected it was due to traffic info. Perhaps that isn't the case, in which case, anyone else got any ideas?
FfwlCymraeg
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Sue,
You're a spy aren't you, the pink caravan is clearly the entrance to an underground bunker :0)
Stu.
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And I bet it's got a tunnel leading straight to Whitley Bay.
David
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Brill wrote:
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> Sue,
> You're a spy aren't you, the pink caravan is clearly the
> entrance to an underground bunker :0)
That may follow when the caravan floor rots completely ...
David W wrote:
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> And I bet it's got a tunnel leading straight to Whitley Bay.
Long walk! Maybe we should install one of those underground railways a la Gringotts?
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