The advanced outlook and navigating, sat-navs and stuff.
Discussion
Hi Guys,
This is something i have been pondering for some time: How the advanced driver navigates.
On any advanced driving exercise i have ever seen or sat with, the advanced driver has always known where he is going, or he has a passenger who tells him where to go. But in most ordinary every day situations the driver, be it the business driver or lorry driver or whoever, will be on his own. How does advanced driving cope with having to navigate as well? How do you plan your driving when you literally don't know where you're going?
Furthermore, how does the advanced driver navigate safely and legally at night? Reason for asking, i have just posted on another thread http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... so I'll just repost the part pertinent to this thread:
>>For anybody who doubts the merits of sat-nav, I have an exercise that would really nail this one, and we don't have to go anywhere exotic. Just Leicester.
We could meet at a pub on the A5 adjacent to junction 1 of the M69 one evening, and then we get in the car and i give the driver an address in Leicester, and I would dearly love to see the driver navigate his way there by map at night. I'd love to see how legally and safely this can be done. Exercises have been done before of map v sat-nav, but forget them, like many 'safety' exercises they were completely dishonest because the map car always had 2 people in whereas the sat-nav car would have one, and to my knowledge the exercises were never carried out at night.
I would dearly love to do this, it would only take an evening and we could have a meal at the pub. We could have 4 people in the car and record and report the drivers experience for PH. I would also love to do it 'cos i do wonder 'if it's me' and should i be doing a better job without sat-nav?
Personally, i believe sat-nav is a major contribution to road safety, but this country really does have a problem with technology and the acceptance of it, IMO.<<
Why Leicester? 'Cos for a provincial medium sized town, they don't half seem to have made a dogs dinner of the road system, and it seems far more difficult to get about than it should be.
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on this guys. I'm off to work in a bit so will reply tomorrow.
This is something i have been pondering for some time: How the advanced driver navigates.
On any advanced driving exercise i have ever seen or sat with, the advanced driver has always known where he is going, or he has a passenger who tells him where to go. But in most ordinary every day situations the driver, be it the business driver or lorry driver or whoever, will be on his own. How does advanced driving cope with having to navigate as well? How do you plan your driving when you literally don't know where you're going?
Furthermore, how does the advanced driver navigate safely and legally at night? Reason for asking, i have just posted on another thread http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... so I'll just repost the part pertinent to this thread:
>>For anybody who doubts the merits of sat-nav, I have an exercise that would really nail this one, and we don't have to go anywhere exotic. Just Leicester.
We could meet at a pub on the A5 adjacent to junction 1 of the M69 one evening, and then we get in the car and i give the driver an address in Leicester, and I would dearly love to see the driver navigate his way there by map at night. I'd love to see how legally and safely this can be done. Exercises have been done before of map v sat-nav, but forget them, like many 'safety' exercises they were completely dishonest because the map car always had 2 people in whereas the sat-nav car would have one, and to my knowledge the exercises were never carried out at night.
I would dearly love to do this, it would only take an evening and we could have a meal at the pub. We could have 4 people in the car and record and report the drivers experience for PH. I would also love to do it 'cos i do wonder 'if it's me' and should i be doing a better job without sat-nav?
Personally, i believe sat-nav is a major contribution to road safety, but this country really does have a problem with technology and the acceptance of it, IMO.<<
Why Leicester? 'Cos for a provincial medium sized town, they don't half seem to have made a dogs dinner of the road system, and it seems far more difficult to get about than it should be.
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on this guys. I'm off to work in a bit so will reply tomorrow.
I'd still be very interested in how the advanced driver would navigate at night. If the exercise meant you didn't know where you were going until its time to set off, (which is what i have to do each night at work), and you have a deadline, (ditto), how would the advanced driver manage it and stay safe, legal and to the ethos of the IAM?
And incidentally, are you allowed to stop on double yellows to check a map?
And incidentally, are you allowed to stop on double yellows to check a map?
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