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?