While driving home tonight I pulled up alongside this car and there on the dashboard was a Tom Tom, with a map showing the road ahead. Ok, I guess they are a good idea, but it got me thinking, why use a Tom Tom when you are driving to and from work? I see this chap everyday on the same stretch of road. Surely after one trip there and back he would know the route.
And it’s not as if there are multiple routes to work, for instance where we live, there is only one or two ways into work, so a Tom Tom would be a waste.
The only time I would say they would be useful, was if one went on a long distance trip, but even then, the whole fun of driving is finding your way, looking up place names on a map, getting lost, all of which is a damm side better than letting some computer tell you where to go. sure give these devices to women, who don’t know their arse from their elbow, but for men to admit they can’t drive without a Tom Tom is disgraceful and pathetic.
But do they really work? Your comments or views on this topic will be more than welcome.
I know of two examples where friends of mine have typed in the postal code of the destination, and then have had to stop and ask for directions. Ha Ha, that must have been embarressing.
I doubt I will ever buy a GPS navigation system (unless someone buys one for me, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” - That’s an idiom people), because who needs one when you have a live person sitting next to you, who can look at a map and tell you where to go, and two how can anyone justify the ridiculous prices these things go sell for?
No wicked weasel women were hurt in writing this article… If you don’t know what I am talking about, then you have not read the above article.
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November 1st, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Mike you sneaky little bugger
nice link’age
November 1st, 2005 at 1:10 pm
haha, very clever.
November 1st, 2005 at 1:14 pm
I thought so too.
November 2nd, 2005 at 12:57 am
Ok here is the thing
I am a professional marine navigator, this what I do for a living.
The tom tom sytem is something that enables someone with no skill in professional navigation to be able to go anyway (provided you have the correct maps) will no hassle.
I studied for a year then had practical hands on training on systems a lot more advanced but essentially the same thing to get me to where I am now.
Anyone who just walks in and uses this technology without training is a little bewilder by a conventional GPS.
Tom tom is different, whilst I don’t like it and see flaws in what it can and can’t do, I can’t fault the unit. I does what it says it does. For that I give a Tom Tom unit 10/10.
Well done lads you have brought practical navigation to the masses
Salty
November 2nd, 2005 at 2:55 am
Thank **** I didn’t ask for a essay. (Just a comment).
November 6th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
Yes they do work, I have used one - more reliable than a womens directions! They would suit a sales rep, who are normally to busy cutting up other road uses to have the time to read a map!
November 27th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
Women’s directions are the best…. I mean where else can you have an arguement with a woman and be right?