RE: Pioneer Unveils 'Augmented Reality' Sat-Nav
Discussion
nouze said:
iain1970 said:
I find reality so much more useful when driving. Also, what's so difficult about looking at a map before you set off and planning your route? How many people who have Sat Nav in their cars actually NEED it?
Surprised you didn't write this post on a typewriter. Why, it's so much less hassle than firing up a computa.Dagnut said:
Try driving in London when you don't know you're way around. I defy anyone to come to London without ever having driven there before and successfully navigate your way around, what are you going pull over at the side of the road and keep looking at a map and using street signs?
That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
If driving in London was my job or a regular occurence, I'd probably learn the places I needed to go over time, much like I do when making deliveries anywhere else. If I was a once in a blue moon visitor to London, I'd ditch the car outside the city and use public transport. It'd probably be more time and cost effective.That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
I've got to admit, following on from yesterday's news that the Po Po will be able to determine careless driving at the roadside and punish accordingly, I hope this will include those people that drive with a Tom Tom in their windscreens. A chip in the windscreen is an MOT failure if in the general line of sight of the driver, why is a suckered on sat-nav the size of Belgium less dangerous?
Dagnut said:
Try driving in London when you don't know you're way around. I defy anyone to come to London without ever having driven there before and successfully navigate your way around, what are you going pull over at the side of the road and keep looking at a map and using street signs?
That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
^^^ This ^^^ That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
After all, before GPS and SatNav, no-one could navigate round London at all. People just stayed within their own little areas and didn't venture further for fear for being lost. Many areas had reputations for dragons and monsters.
iain1970 said:
nouze said:
iain1970 said:
I find reality so much more useful when driving. Also, what's so difficult about looking at a map before you set off and planning your route? How many people who have Sat Nav in their cars actually NEED it?
Surprised you didn't write this post on a typewriter. Why, it's so much less hassle than firing up a computa.Dagnut said:
Try driving in London when you don't know you're way around. I defy anyone to come to London without ever having driven there before and successfully navigate your way around, what are you going pull over at the side of the road and keep looking at a map and using street signs?
That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
If driving in London was my job or a regular occurence, I'd probably learn the places I needed to go over time, much like I do when making deliveries anywhere else. If I was a once in a blue moon visitor to London, I'd ditch the car outside the city and use public transport. It'd probably be more time and cost effective.That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
I've got to admit, following on from yesterday's news that the Po Po will be able to determine careless driving at the roadside and punish accordingly, I hope this will include those people that drive with a Tom Tom in their windscreens. A chip in the windscreen is an MOT failure if in the general line of sight of the driver, why is a suckered on sat-nav the size of Belgium less dangerous?
I drove in major cities all over the world and without doubt London is the hardest to get around in generally good drivers...but navigating is difficult as I learned when I first moved here, never had a sat nav but here - for me it's a godsend
I have always been too mean to download the foreign maps but suspect they are going to be far more useful abroad when dashing out of the airport withb the hire car.
Once I headed for Murcia thinking that Murcia airport might be there...of course it wasn't and I had a ring-puckering dash to catch the plane after consulting a hastily bought map.
Once I headed for Murcia thinking that Murcia airport might be there...of course it wasn't and I had a ring-puckering dash to catch the plane after consulting a hastily bought map.
ewenm said:
Dagnut said:
Try driving in London when you don't know you're way around. I defy anyone to come to London without ever having driven there before and successfully navigate your way around, what are you going pull over at the side of the road and keep looking at a map and using street signs?
That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
^^^ This ^^^ That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
After all, before GPS and SatNav, no-one could navigate round London at all. People just stayed within their own little areas and didn't venture further for fear for being lost. Many areas had reputations for dragons and monsters.
Beardy10 said:
It needs a mode to help the discerning gentleman spot pedestrians that he might want to take a lingering look at as he drives past....obviously need some fairly sophisticated algorhythm to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
What, like a kind of "fit from far, far from fit" filter?I really hate that when in the car so would be the best invention ever. Thing is, like trusting SAT NAV in general, would you trust such a device and take a look anyway?
Dagnut said:
Try driving in London when you don't know you're way around. I defy anyone to come to London without ever having driven there before and successfully navigate your way around, what are you going pull over at the side of the road and keep looking at a map and using street signs?
That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
Funny that, having first driven in London in the late 90's and having been there in a car a handful of times I find it is just like driving anywhere else in the UK, same signs and same road rules providing you have enough of a brain to have at least a vague idea of your planned route before setting off there is no need for sat nav unless you are on a tight deadline or doing multiple stops. That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
Even Paris wasn't too bad the first time, though the Arc De Triomphe would scare the s
t out of me if I was driving a tank. Dagnut said:
iain1970 said:
I find reality so much more useful when driving. Also, what's so difficult about looking at a map before you set off and planning your route? How many people who have Sat Nav in their cars actually NEED it?
Try driving in London when you don't know you're way around. I defy anyone to come to London without ever having driven there before and successfully navigate your way around, what are you going pull over at the side of the road and keep looking at a map and using street signs? That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
will261058 said:
Dagnut said:
iain1970 said:
I find reality so much more useful when driving. Also, what's so difficult about looking at a map before you set off and planning your route? How many people who have Sat Nav in their cars actually NEED it?
Try driving in London when you don't know you're way around. I defy anyone to come to London without ever having driven there before and successfully navigate your way around, what are you going pull over at the side of the road and keep looking at a map and using street signs? That would work well in rush hour traffic, very safe.
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