GPS nonsense

We have to advise delivery people that using sat nav will take them to a different street. I’ve had delivery people ring from that address saying they’re outside my house when they’re not, and I have to tell them we’re street not avenue. Luckily it’s not too far away. Even the postman gets it wrong somehow and I get the Avenue address post and they get mine.

When I put in "home" it thinks I live in Wales!

Lilyflower - and you'd rather drive straight across it, eh?

Love these posts !

We live opposite a large village green and wherever we want to go the SatNav tries to take us all the way round the green first. Ludicrous.

My husband's sat nav in his latest car is supposed to respond to voice commands - the results are hilarious as it obviously doesn't recognise his Yorkshire accent and we always give up in the end. He's been on the road for years so has a sat nav in his head but might occasionally set it for the actual address then totally ignore the rest of the directions - it's constantly saying re calc u lating in a frustrating tone

Neilspurgeon0 my grandsons are at nursery school in Auckland and the weekly bulletins I get from it always contain Maori words - mostly unpronounceable

Frustratingly my satnav is usually perfectly reliable, but if I put in the postcode set up as 'Home' it won't take me home, it insists I drive past the road to our turn off, and takes me at least to the next village. I've always ignored it and driven home, but one day perhaps I will continue and find out where it thinks I live - perhaps my husband has a fancy woman holed up somewhere?

My SiL brought his sat nav with him when he, my daughter and grandsons came to visit the first time in Portugal. He had the voice of Sally traffic on it and it was hilarious to hear the pronounciation of local towns and villages.

I thought you had a problem doctor ?

Not a road story but a plane story. Flying RNZF to Auckland our baggage labels had WHE on for WHENUAPAI Poor old Brits completely flummoxed by the announcement we will soon be landing as Fen-nu-a-pie

Maori is a strange, but very interesting language

I borrowed my daughter's sat nav for my first trip to Durham to visit my son at uni. When I returned to Birmingham I set it for her address but needed to change it as she was still at work when I got back. I stopped at a garage to change it but hit a wrong button and changed the language to Hungarian! Not knowing what to do I phoned her having tried everything to reset it without success. By then I was angry and frustrated so my language was somewhat colourful. What I didn't realise was that she was in her boss's office not her own and he overheard my ranting before she could shut me up!

I think that my satnav must get thirsty, and like to stop for a little refreshment. I was heading to a crematorium for a funeral when the satnav directed me into a pub car park and told me that I had 'reached my destination.' When I drove out again it must have realised that I wasn't going to buy a drink. It guided me to the funeral with no further problems.

This didn't happen to me it happened to a friend but it was funny. It was the early days of sat nav. They were heading for a hotel with friends for the weekend. Keyed in the address, sat nav took them off the motorway, down the other side, into a lay by and said 'You have reached your destination'

Mini break in a lay by

I used the one on my phone the other day. I knew the first part of my journey but not the last bit. First it told me to take the second exit at a roundabout that hasn't existed for 5 or 6 years and then told me to turn down a one way street the wrong way - again its been like that for years. Phone is 18 months old I regularly updatw the apps!!

My sat nav often tells me to follow this road "for a long way"
Better than a previous one though, which on one occasion just kept repeating "turn right, turn left, turn right..." on a road with no turnings!

Given up using the sat nav and have gone back to maps. Never had a problem before but thought a sat nav would be easier but I find its not.

We were perplexed when our satnav persisted in taking us to a small town instead of the National Trust House we were heading for. After a considerable while it clicked - we had entered the Letter O instead of the Number 0. Once we corrected it we arrived at Waddesdon Manor !!

Trying to navigate my way through Liverpool to the Mersey Ferry, my satnav kept telling me to take a U-turn, but all the signs said 'No U-turns'. Eventually I gave up and followed the road signs.

Coming out of Tescos car park one day our satnav lady rebuked me: "You're going the wrong way down a one way street!"
I still haven't worked out that one.

Acatholic priest I knew called his GPS "Bruce" and had it on the Aussie accent. What he loved was "going wrong" as Bruce would say "Bug..r, bu..r, bug..r" before re-directing him!

My sat nav is very prim....it refuses to say Cockshott Rd but pronounces it Coshott Rd. Always makes me smile

I had a sat nave that directed me wrongly so many times, so I used to leave it on when I knew where I was going, her comment 'recalculating' used to sound more and more annoyed as she went on. My current sat nav does not believe there are 2 villages in my area that have been there since medieval times!!!

I don't have this problem with my sat nav. It was a cheap one and just tells me to turn left or right or 1st or 2nd etc exit off of a roundabout. Have to say my favourite comment it makes is to drive more than ten miles. A friend pointed out that the voice is very firm when it tells me I am over the speed limit.

I do find some of the pronunciations 'interesting' or rather incomprehensible! Especially in France!

Still, as long as it gets you there - which doesn't invariably happen. Hence I will always have a road map in the car - sometimes dh's faith in satnav is sadly misplaced, especially in rural areas.

After two separate occasions where it had taken us round and round in circles when visiting his relatives in rural Sussex, the next time I said, 'Will you please ring and get directions for the last couple of miles?'

'No need - I remember the way now.'
Er, same old Magical Mystery Tour again...

One thing I've noticed is that although he used to be brilliant at finding/remembering his way anywhere, since relying for years on satnav in the car or on his phone, he's much less good at it now.
Use it or lose it, I suppose.

My sense of direction was always pretty hopeless, but OTOH I'm still good at reading maps!

Our sat nav insists that we're driving through Level Head, not Leatherhead!

DH sat nav says Altring Cham instead of Altrincham - needless to say so do we now!