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Title: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott'm
Post by: theolodian on 12 October 2006, 21:40:01
Nice looking place.  :)  Main reason though is that Omega sat-nav knows the way in but not the way out.  It's a conspiracy to keep you there!  *&%$$@%^*) thing sent me through/round the center several times.  Wanted me to go the wrong way on one-way streets, take the bus only streets, etc.  When I finally found a sign for the M1 it told me to do a u-turn!!! >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Del Boy on 12 October 2006, 21:43:16
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Nice looking place.  :)  Main reason though is that Omega sat-nav knows the way in but not the way out.  It's a conspiracy to keep you there!  *&%$$@%^*) thing sent me through/round the center several times.  Wanted me to go the wrong way on one-way streets, take the bus only streets, etc.  When I finally found a sign for the M1 it told me to do a u-turn!!! >:( >:( >:(

Sound like you had one of them days where cars drive you mad
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Bo Bo on 12 October 2006, 21:47:30
Still trying to work out how to use it ?  ;D
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: The Barge Captain on 12 October 2006, 21:58:57
I used to have one of those things in a Toyota Avensis (company car  -  no choice).  Called it "The B*t*h who lives in my car" Forkin useless thing.  Couldn't even find my own house!
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Elite Pete on 12 October 2006, 22:15:54
I was working in a small village called Prion in deepest darkest North Wales yesterday and im glad I was in the wifes Rover as the TomTom took me down lanes that narrow the sides of the Meega would have no paint left on them :o
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Tony H on 12 October 2006, 23:28:35
A mate of mine guided by gps ended up driving down a single track road in a transit minibus on a supposedly public road only to be confronted by a chain across the carridgeway he ended up having to reverse a mile and a half to continue his journney !!!:o
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 13 October 2006, 07:44:51
My TOMTOM sometimes tries to take you down bus lanes and down blocked off roads when set to 'shortest' route  :( and even sometimes narrow alleyways  :o

I sometimes check it for the 'shortest' A to B if I can think of more than one possible route and undecided which is the shortest way......if its picked a daft or impossible route then I either go the way I want to bearing in mind trafic conditions or ask my passenger which way they usually get taken  ;)  

So just goes to show that even if you have SatNav you still have to have local knowledge not to get caught out by them  ;D

Mine is most useful when I get sent down a pickup address way out in the sticks somewhere, they usually send the postcode as well.

Altho now we have a new system fitted in our cars, and if the computer knows where the pickup address is, it sends you down a map, highlighting where it is. Very useful feature  :)
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Ghosts in my machine on 13 October 2006, 10:56:58
SatNav is great as long as you only use it as a guide.

My best advice is - don't use "shortest" route" on a TomTom in Devon or Dorset. It has a habit of taking you down single track roads that are far too narrow for an Omega (and in some cases, a push bike!). It once told me to turn right off the A39, I looked and couldn't actually see a road, then I saw it - A concrete farm track starting 20 yards across a field.  [smiley=angry.gif] The TomTom nearly went for a flying lesson out of the window until I realised that "Fastest route" is the only one to use in that area (ie. keeps you on roads with signs and tarmac).

It should have a "only take me on routes through civilisation" setting. This would be good in some cities as well! [smiley=grin.gif]
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: RossPhim on 13 October 2006, 13:18:59
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It should have a "only take me on routes through civilisation" setting. This would be good in some cities as well! [smiley=grin.gif]

That would keep you well away from my town, then! ;D
Civilisation ...... that would be electricity and stuf  wouldn't it!  :D
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: The Barge Captain on 13 October 2006, 13:28:10
It should have a "only take me on routes through civilisation" setting. This would be good in some cities as well!  

And a keep me out of the red light district / drug dealers cribs mode

(only just realised how to quote just a portion of something  - too late now though)
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: TheBoy on 13 October 2006, 14:07:29
When on hols, I frequently set to shortest route, even in rural places like Cornwall. You end up in some really interesting, picturesque places.  And learn how to reverse several miles...
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Big Rod on 13 October 2006, 15:19:01
Friends of my in-laws live in Devon and they were out in his new Jag XJ one day about a year ago.

He'd bought a Tom-Tom and swore by it.

Don't know where they were going exactly, but it directed them to a ford. Thinking that the Tom-Tom knew what it was talking about he carried on through until he grounded it on a step with water halfway up the doors. He's disabled, so my father in law had to climb out of the window to shout for help.

Eventually a tractor driver came along and towed them out. He said that if he was getting sick of it. Apparently it happens a few times a week. Generally OAP's, (the in-laws), or tourists in hire cars.

Unfortunately the exhaust on the Jag was a write off.
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: CaptainZok on 13 October 2006, 16:22:48
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It should have a "only take me on routes through civilisation" setting. This would be good in some cities as well! [smiley=grin.gif]

Well thats most of Salford out then.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 13 October 2006, 16:35:13
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 And learn how to reverse several miles...

 ;D ;D

I was parked up in carpark one day and a van driver stopped to ask me where macdonalds was.....i  directed him......but he was a tad confused coz his sat nav reckoned it was where the carpark was, theres never been a mcd's there  ::)
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: CaptainZok on 13 October 2006, 16:42:40
The problems of relying on technology.
I tend to use TomTom to find places, and just plan the route from years of experience driving around the country.
At work I deliver parcels and use a copy of the AtoZ on my phone which is great but if my phone battery goes I'll be stuffed.
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: TheBoy on 13 October 2006, 22:21:16
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Well thats most of Salford out then.  ;D ;D
Hmmm, I occasionally have to go there. Always a bit scary as you approach from Trafford Park end past all the burnt out pubs.....
Title: Re: Found out why there are so many meegas in Nott
Post by: CaptainZok on 13 October 2006, 22:33:21
I have to deliver parcels there every day.
Yep I'm the nutter walking around with a box saying "laptop/tv set/video please steal me".