Nanny satnav

[88v8]

Garmin died.
£80 to repair or £160 to replace. Hate throwing things away but....

The possible new one, the Garmin Drive 61LMT-S
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-61LMT-S-Lifetime-U...
not only has the usual speed camera alerts, but apparently warns about 20mph school zones, and ..... dangerous bends.
Ye gods.

Now we have nanny satnav. What snowlflake designed that?

I suppose this is the shape of things to come, we can't be trusted to drive our own cars

DAK is it possible to turn this rubbish off, or do I need to read through a hundred of pages of user manual to find out?

V8

[Xcore]

Maps on iPhone, does the job and it’s free

[Saleen836]

Xcore said:

Maps on iPhone, does the job and it’s free

This ^^^^^^

You have Google Maps, Waze and Satnav apps for a start that are all free, you can also download mapd on the sat nav app to use offline

[kambites]

Google maps seems perfectly adequate to me.

[rainmakerraw]

kambites said:

Google maps seems perfectly adequate to me.

It’s one of the original and best in its genre, but it doesn’t do camera or hazard alerts. For that you need Waze, Here or ViaMichelin... Or CamerAlert set to launch Apple Maps (which now uses Here POIs and TomTom traffic, and is very good) or Google Nav for the best of both worlds, depending on your preferences.

[Ron99]

88v8 said:

Garmin died.
£80 to repair or £160 to replace. Hate throwing things away but....

The possible new one, the Garmin Drive 61LMT-S

DAK is it possible to turn this rubbish off, or do I need to read through a hundred of pages of user manual to find out?

V8

I have a Garmin 50LM and it's possible to turn off most if not all of the nanny things, or at least remove the audible alerts for those features even if the satnav screen still shows them.

[mp3manager]

Xcore said:

Maps on iPhone, does the job and it’s free

But the iphone isn't.

[Saleen836]

mp3manager said:

Xcore said:

Maps on iPhone, does the job and it’s free

But the iphone isn't.

Download the maps and use offline

[88v8]

Thanks, chaps, interesting but I don't really do phones. Not quite true, I have an original noughties Nokia, which I think looks 'smart' in its two-tone leather case.
I sent the pratnav for repair. Done in three days and on its way back to me.

So for the time being I'm spared the nannying of a new one.
But if this trend continues we'll have cars telling us how to drive, cookers telling us how to cook, and showers telling us how to wash our knadgers.
Progress, but in a bad direction.

V8

[Simpo Two]

Agreed. I tried a Garmin, but as well as not telling me about sliproads until I'd missed the turning, it was full of strap-on clutter and not actually as good at navigating as the 10 year-old TomTom it replaced!

[anonymous-user]

Saleen836 said:

Download the maps and use offline

He meant an iPhone costs £700 onwards, not free :-)

[captain_cynic]

88v8 said:

Garmin died.
£80 to repair or £160 to replace. Hate throwing things away but....

The possible new one, the Garmin Drive 61LMT-S
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-61LMT-S-Lifetime-U...
not only has the usual speed camera alerts, but apparently warns about 20mph school zones, and ..... dangerous bends.
Ye gods.

Now we have nanny satnav. What snowlflake designed that?

Settle down snowflake... its not a conspiracy.

It was designed by committee to reduce their liability (death by GPS is a real thing) by putting in as many warnings as possible. Remember that these units are sold in the US where they can sue because their GPS didn't warn them of a slight bend (whilst they were playing on their phone).

Also... who buys a standalone GPS these days when Google Maps provides all the functionality you need and has much more current maps (as well as live traffic updates and automatically routes you around traffic jams, crashes and roadworks if it can).