Easter looms and with it the annual tour of Britain sets out as drivers who have spent the entire winter watching East Enders head off in search of Emmerdale. Sometimes with consequences of Coronation Street proportions.
You see each of these locations can be entered into a sat-nav and each will return a result. Just not the one you might want.
From the very beginning giving drivers point and squirt navigation has been fraught with dangers. Everyone has a story to tell of being told to turn left at the fork in the road only to end up in a school playground.
Already this year we have seen a crop of sat-nav howlers resulting in damage.
Incompetent sat navs have been in the spotlight yet again this week, with the latest in a series of ‘stuck truck’ fiascos causing chaos in a small village in Wales.
One incident saw a 20-tonne lorry stranded on a steep mountain road, leaving fields with axle-deep furrows, three gates dislodged and damage to quarter of a mile of stonewall. Elsewhere, drivers have been taken to a bridge over the River Severn that has never existed, vans and lorries and a Czech driver was stuck in Ivybridge near Plymouth for three days when his lorry became wedged in a narrow lane.
Sat-nav was available to small boat users long before it was an option in cars. And costs considerably more. Every bit of nautical advice has made the same point-do not rely on a GPS as your sole means of navigation.
Or you may find yourself well and truly up poo creek without a paddle.
A new meaning to a day out in the country
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