Could you live without Sat Nav?

[AndrewTait]

Tend to use maps, but won a sat-nav, and have only used it a couple of times. Best bit about it is the warnings of speed cameras.

[TedMaul]

MentalSarcasm said:

I don't have one in the first place.

Me neither. Never tried one. I'm a bloke and I know where I'm going thanks.

[ewenm]

Don said:

ali_kat said:

I have maps (and can read them!)

And a compass (and I can read that as well!!)

I am the guy that when he goes for a hike..

Has a GPS - fully loaded with Ordnance Survey grade mapping.
Has spare batteries for the GPS.
Has a second set of spare batteries.
Has a GPS in his mobile phone and carries that too.
Has an Ordnance Survey paper map along with a proper hiking compass anyway. The batteries might run out. All the GPS satellites could all fall out of the sky together and one must be prepared.
Follows his location on the paper map at all times.

I like to know where I am. Yes. I am obsessive, compulsive about it.

Add to all that the usual mountain walking safety gear, spare food and photographic equipment and it's a hefty rucksack just to go down the shops.

I'd ditch all the GPS gubbins if I were you. Your map and compass are plenty.

[john2443]

Jgtv said:

Yep with out a care in the world.
I dont have one, I have a map job done.

Me too.

[shirt]

have only used satnav once, in a hire car in luxembourg & france. proved absolutely invaluable in that situation but i can only think of 2-3 times in recent years that i'd have used one in the uk.

[Rob.]

I'm with many others - would'nt bother me at all. I can read an A-Z and an Atlas and that is half the challenge - I get more satisfaction finding somewhere myself than a bloody robotic bint taking the credit.

[jmorgan]

I know where I live and where I work. I know where the chip shop is and I do not have a sat nav. So. carry on....


But, are there various bits of kit that derive timing from the sat nav signal?

[GKP]

But how will the PAYG road pricing and auto speed limit devices work without satnav?

[sleep envy]

GKP said:

But how will the PAYG road pricing and auto speed limit devices work without satnav?

ANPR

[Mikeyboy]

I could do without it. I may even get to more of my destinations on time, like I did when I used a map and didn't divert myself through the nearest town off a motorway because of some erroneous traffic report.

But the GPS going down. Hmm now thats not good.

[GreenDog]

Got one, its sits gathering dust in the glove compartment most of the time but every now and again it does come in hand when going somewhere unfamiliar. I always carry a roadmap in the car too though, just in case.

[otolith]

I used to be in the "don't see the point, use a map, etc" old fogey camp. Then I was given one as a Christmas present. Having used one a bit, I think they're a great little tool, and dirt cheap now too. You just have to use them with a bit of common sense and remember which is the driver and which is a tool.

[PD9]

yes.

[Dogwatch]

Trains and buses use GPS too! Could be interesting.

I think the trains also use Windoze so are in real deep doggy-doo.

[Ladyhayles]

I think I'd be ok without mine but it would mean investing in a good road atlas and some town area street maps as I have to go to random places with my job and GPS does help on big industrial estates or small trading estates in the middle of nowhere.

I can read maps and have a good sense of direction although even when I use my GPS its usually on silent so I only look at it as a rough guide now and then and I generally don't listen to it when I can see its sending me in the wrong direction.

[HRG]

They use it to plough the fields round here these days. (sic)

[captainzep]

Ha!

Your puny GPS equipment is no match for my length of string which runs directly from my front door to the kebab shop.

I can assure you that my system is fully operational.

[Don]

You know the real benefit of Sat Nav don't you?

Never having to ask for directions. No matter how much she complains.

And when you get lost? You both blame the Sat Nav instead of each other.

Good for the sex life.

[handpaper]

jmorgan said:

I know where I live and where I work. I know where the chip shop is and I do not have a sat nav. So. carry on....


But, are there various bits of kit that derive timing from the sat nav signal?

Performance Box/Drift Box et.al.

[King Herald]

dibbers006 said:

There is not a wafer thin chance in hell that they will let the system go 'down'

It doesn't affect me directly in any way but with so many businesses and the 'Governments' relying on it. There is no way it will fail.

My whole company relies on the GPS system for locating our oil survey ships, so if that goes down, we are sunk.