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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 |
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 |
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. |
Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
"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. |
Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
In article ,
(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 |
Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:54:25 +0000, 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 Did you actually watch the programme though? There were three legs Box Hill - Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium - Parliament Square Parliament Square - Greenwich. The Sat Nav beat the taxi by about 10 minutes on the first leg as the taxi driver got stuck down country lanes just like the Sat Nav system! On the second leg the taxi only overtook the BBC car on what looked like the Edgware Road and then ducked and dived down some back streets off Park Lane to cut through to Parliament Square. What was more galling was the taxi driver saying "well mate, make sure you avoid Piccadilly and Piccadilly Circus and dive round by Buck Palace to get to Westminster". The only issue being, of course, that his diversion off Park Lane took him exactly in the direction of Piccadilly and not Buck Palace but heh! On the second leg the taxi gained about 15 minutes or so. This lead expanded to 27 minutes by Greenwich. The point of the programme was really to show that the Sat Nav "congestion avoiding" element of the software / system was not very sophisticated. The big difference being that what counts as a jam for London was showing as clear on the system. I'm not a fan of Sat Nav systems - give me a real map any day of the week - but it's surely not a great surprise that a human being with the benefit of expert knowledge, experience and common sense can outwit a partially developed computer system?? -- Paul C Admits to working for London Underground! |
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 |
Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:54:25 +0000, Mike Hughes wrote: I'm not a fan of Sat Nav systems - give me a real map any day of the week - but it's surely not a great surprise that a human being with the benefit of expert knowledge, experience and common sense can outwit a partially developed computer system?? Naturally local knowledge will always beat a computer, but Sat Navs come up trumps when you visit a place you've never been to before. |
Sat Nav v the taxi knowledge
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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