Re: GPS Routing in UK

Roger Mills wrote:
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Dennis Pogson <dennis_nospampogson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Yesterday's Daily Mail (UK) had a full centre spread on drivers who
had been badly misled by their digital nav systems, headed "Driven
Round the Bend"

These included one guy whose sat-nav directed him on a route which
totalled 56 miles, but which his own knowledge of the route told him
the shortest distance was in fact 13 miles. Another guy complained
his sat-nav directed him over a cliff, and one whose digital wonder
directed him into a dead-end.



I got the impression that the Mail had gone out of its way to find people who had been given wacky routes. The treatment was very superficial - not once mentioning what routing options (fastest, shortest, avoiding motorways, etc.) had been selected by the users.


Given it's a newspaper, and the Daily Mail, not a surprise. A balanced story would not have been sensational enough ;)
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