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December 16th 07, 11:54 AM
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Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
Test carried out by BBC using one of the latest Sat Navs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/7143897.stm Seems that the taxi driver using the traditional knowledge can still beat the Sat Nav. stands back and waits for comments -- Mike Hughes A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England |
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December 16th 07, 01:33 PM
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Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
Mike Hughes wrote:
Test carried out by BBC using one of the latest Sat Navs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/7143897.stm Seems that the taxi driver using the traditional knowledge can still beat the Sat Nav. stands back and waits for comments *crickets chirping* -- Michael Hoffman |
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December 16th 07, 01:58 PM
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Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (Mike Hughes) wrote: Test carried out by BBC using one of the latest Sat Navs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/7143897.stm Seems that the taxi driver using the traditional knowledge can still beat the Sat Nav. stands back and waits for comments -- Mike Hughes A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England I'm not in the least surprised. SatNav systems seem to be seriously crap at claiming routes exist that in fact don't. My TomTom says that the *fastest* route from Euston Road to Essex Road is Pentonville Rd - City Rd - Wakley St - Goswell Rd - Islington High St - Upper St - Islington Gn. Crazy! If you ask for the shortest route, it sends you through Baron St and White Lion St, which is the correct shortest and fastest route. |
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December 16th 07, 04:09 PM
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(John Rowland) wrote: Colin Rosenstiel wrote: In article , (Mike Hughes) wrote: Test carried out by BBC using one of the latest Sat Navs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/7143897.stm Seems that the taxi driver using the traditional knowledge can still beat the Sat Nav. stands back and waits for comments -- Mike Hughes A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England I'm not in the least surprised. SatNav systems seem to be seriously crap at claiming routes exist that in fact don't. My TomTom says that the *fastest* route from Euston Road to Essex Road is Pentonville Rd - City Rd - Wakley St - Goswell Rd - Islington High St - Upper St - Islington Gn. Crazy! If you ask for the shortest route, it sends you through Baron St and White Lion St, which is the correct shortest and fastest route. At least it doesn't try to route you through any bollarded streets! -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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December 16th 07, 05:39 PM
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Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
My TomTom says that the *fastest* route from Euston Road to Essex Road is
Pentonville Rd - City Rd - Wakley St - Goswell Rd - Islington High St - Upper St - Islington Gn. Crazy! If you ask for the shortest route, it sends you through Baron St and White Lion St, which is the correct shortest and fastest route. In my view, SatNav doesn't exist to help me get to my destination via the fastest route and I don't expect it. However, most routes it comes up with would always be quicker then me driving by myself, getting lost, missing turns, stopping and consulting a map (or, saint's preserve us - asking a local) even if it is not the fastest route that someone who knows the area would use. If you know what the fastest and best route it, why would you need to follow a Sat Nav anyway? Best Wishes, LEWIS |
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December 16th 07, 09:11 PM
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December 17th 07, 12:23 AM
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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (Lew 1) wrote: My TomTom says that the *fastest* route from Euston Road to Essex Road is Pentonville Rd - City Rd - Wakley St - Goswell Rd - Islington High St - Upper St - Islington Gn. Crazy! If you ask for the shortest route, it sends you through Baron St and White Lion St, which is the correct shortest and fastest route. In my view, SatNav doesn't exist to help me get to my destination via the fastest route and I don't expect it. However, most routes it comes up with would always be quicker then me driving by myself, getting lost, missing turns, stopping and consulting a map (or, saint's preserve us - asking a local) even if it is not the fastest route that someone who knows the area would use. If you know what the fastest and best route it, why would you need to follow a Sat Nav anyway? Some turnings are hard to find at speed. You might know that the road you want is off Wightman Road ( http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=531250&y=188750 ) , for example, but finding the right turning is a hell of a lot easier with a Satnav. I've never used a SatNav myself but observed an AA Relay driver following one to my home in Cambridge from London. It nearly missed him a vital turn in Cambridge by not understanding the layout of a long established double mini-roundabout junction in Cambridge. If I'd not been there with local knowledge he'd have gone straight ahead instead of turning right and got very lost. My AA driver would have followed the Tomtom around an illegal right turn if I hadn't told him not to. I wonder if people using them get fined more often than people using maps? |
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December 16th 07, 03:31 PM
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"Mike Hughes" wrote in message ... Test carried out by BBC using one of the latest Sat Navs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/7143897.stm Seems that the taxi driver using the traditional knowledge can still beat the Sat Nav. stands back and waits for comments -- Mike Hughes A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------- OK then, take me from Manor House station to Gibson square. |
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December 16th 07, 07:06 PM
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In message , Rob Wilton
writes "Mike Hughes" wrote in message ... Test carried out by BBC using one of the latest Sat Navs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/7143897.stm Seems that the taxi driver using the traditional knowledge can still beat the Sat Nav. stands back and waits for comments -- Mike Hughes A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------- OK then, take me from Manor House station to Gibson square. LOL (For those who don't know that is the very first 'route' in the 'blue book' issued by the Public Carriage Office to those intending to become taxi drivers) -- Mike Hughes A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England |
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