Sat Nav Disasters.

[Major Starbold]

has your Sat Nav ever let you down?
What happened?

Sat nav disasters: Mirror.co.uk Top 10 - mirror.co.uk

Sat nav disasters:

With news today of a driver's terrifying ordeal on the edge of a sheer 100ft drop after he followed instructions from his sat nav, here’s more evidence that you shouldn’t always trust your handy electronic co-pilot.

1. A notorious gang of armed bank robbers were brought to justice because their bungling driver used his sat nav to check out locations for their raids. Adrian Johnson added the addresses of 12 banks into his device’s 'places of interest’ while planning the robberies.When he was caught during a final raid, police computer experts used his TomTom sat nav as crucial evidence to link him to previous hold-ups. The gang were eventually locked up for a total of 71 years for a spree of 21 bank jobs. Speaking after their trial, Flying Squad Detective Inspector Terry Wilson, who led the investigation, said: "There is no better evidence when you arrest somebody for a linked series of robberies at locations across the country and it was beyond our expectations."

[Earl]

If you watch the road and use SatNav as a guide, as intended, you won't go far wrong.

[Major Starbold]

Which model do you have MM?

[syl1]

That pic in the mirror today, of a car almost going over a cliff...I admit, I'me not the Worlds best driver, but even I would have worked out, that a dirt road, up a hillside was possibly the wrong road to be on.

[timey]

I'm not sure I believe all these stories about people just blindly following their sat navs into rivers etc. Are people really that thick?

[syl1]

I'm not sure I believe all these stories about people just blindly following their sat navs into rivers etc. Are people really that thick?

I think some people are. The pics in the mirror today, were unbelievable. I think he is going to be done for wasting police time, trying to "rescue" him. Twonk.

[mimseycal]

If that is indeed the case, I will not be shedding any tears over him syl1

[Chippychap]

I live near that incident.
I am a newbie to Sat-navs and to prove MY twonkiness this is what I wrote in a Sat-Nav forum recently.

£69.99 with free P+P from Maplins online.
Arrived in less than 24 hours so yesterday was its first outing.
I live in West Yorkshire and was going to a farm shop so the bit in Preferences about unmade roads just flew over my head.
It virtually took me through peoples dining rooms.
Bit of a farm track I thought...That was the good bit.
The tractor wheels had left the ridge in the centre of the...er...road rather a tad pronounced...hey ho.
"Turn sharp right" the bitch in the box commanded, me, a married man, tried to obey.
At one stage my front bumper rested against the stone wall in front whilst my back door rested against one of the stone gate-posts on the other side of the car.
My wife chipped in "I don't like this"...she'll get hers.
Luckily, whilst trying to reverse, the car started turning on its axis and I snuck through. Stig eat your heart out.
This less well maintained track I was now on sloped down alarmingly and had obviously never seen ANY traffic that didn't run on red derv or oats.
The car started to slide in the mud, it was only the humungous ruts that kept me from wiping both sides off the car off on the rough stone walls inches from me mirrors.
The Cresta Run? piece of .
34 miles and hour and the cars driver was totaly redundant.
400yds In front of me, directly across my path, was a busy main road.
I had my foot pressed hard on the brakes, played with the handbrake for fun, I've got my current wife, she who'll get hers, shrieking down me ears, I couldn't even do a Daniel Craig and roll out of the car door cos the Yorkshire Granite was too close.
Luckily there was a small area of cobbles tween the end of this death-slide and the main road.
The old bloke who watched me skid to a halt with the nose of the car hanging off the kerb will be sponging his trousers almost as long as I will.
Cracking bit-O-kit though.

Guilty as charged m'lud

[mimseycal]

Having picked myself up off the floor after laughing, I have just enough energy left to say ... I hope you all survived with skin intact.

[Major Starbold]

Which model sat nav do you have Mims?