Problems with your satnav -- or other people's as they guide traffic past your front door?
According to the Telegraph this morning, the government is set to step in to regulate. The report suggests that the Department of Transport is looking to set up a testing programme that woud come up with a set of star ratings that would inform potential buyers just how reliable a system was.
The move is designed to address the problem of wrong or inappropriate routing instructions. For example, the story quotes residents of a tiny hamlet who are suffering a strong of cars and vans that get stuck in a rutted track, and another narrow country lane wide enough for one car being clogged by redirected motorists.
The problem seems to be one of an inability of the system to differentiate between types of road so that people expecting to save 10minutes off a journey end up getting stuck for ages in a tiny country lane.
If you've got satnav, it's almost certainly happened to you. And it just goes to show: you can't chuck out your paper maps just yet.