There was a lot to be said for institutions such as going to school, listening, geography, numbers and even the Boy Scouts.
Navigational and map reading abilities are generally so poor many drivers can get lost in their own underwear.
But who cares when there is the modern miracle of sat nav, available through Halfords, Motor World and often from some pikey looking bloke down the pub.
Tom Tom and the like have revolutionised navigation and car crime at a stroke.
However, the human race continually comes up with more inventive ways to prove itself daft as sausage cake. Apparently accidents are being caused by drivers staring hard at their navigator screens before manoeuvres because the can’t relate what’s on the map to the reality of the junction in front of them.
Oh please, suspend my stockings with silly string.
Right, well wherever there is a plant pot there is someone with a plant to put in it. Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have developed a video system that plays footage of up and coming junctions on screen so the driver recognises them.
This will clearly enable thickos to work out where they are going. Unless, of course, they are holding the navigator unit upside down.
What a fork in the road looks like. Turn left here.
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