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labazs

sat navs the curse of modern motoring especially lorries. so many get stuck in narrow roads and lanes hardly fit for cars never mind big lorries.
Fil was in a home about half hour away and one day I noticed that nearby was a store that would be of interest to us so we decided to combine a visit with visiting Dad. carefully put the post code in the sat nav and set on. The sat nav took us to a remote forest!

Most lorries use purpose made satnav systems for lorries, but lorries are so big they end up blocking narrow roads as they make their way to agricultural businesses and their like. We used to live in a village on a uiet lane - except for the huge lorries coming down to the farm and the businesses occupying a lot of the farm buildings.

You have my sympathy labazs, we were on holiday in north Northumberland when DH was taken ill and the aambulance took him to a specialised A&E hospital 55 miles away just north of Newcastle. The paramedic wrote down the post code and I put it in my phone satnav and headed off . I do know the Newcastle area as I was ta university there a very long time ago, so when I realised I was on the Coast Road, I knew something was not uite right. It then took me through tiny streets to Whitley Bay. There was nowhere to stop until I reached the front when the Sat Nav announced I had reached my destination. When I looked at the screen it announced that I had reached The North Sea. Well, I had never put that in as my destination, and I could see the North Sea from our holiday flat!

I reset it and set off, it seemed very reluctant to give directions, but I did get to the hospital in the end and DH was discharged home and made a good recovery. But at times like that a malfunctioning satnav is very distressing.

sat navs the curse of modern motoring especially lorries. so many get stuck in narrow roads and lanes hardly fit for cars never mind big lorries.
Fil was in a home about half hour away and one day I noticed that nearby was a store that would be of interest to us so we decided to combine a visit with visiting Dad. carefully put the post code in the sat nav and set on. The sat nav took us to a remote forest!

M0nica - Maybe that's why delivery drivers don't have problems anymore finding my house - somebody somewhere did that at some point and hence even ones I've not seen before seem to get it right these days. So at least it's just friends now that I have to give very careful directions to - the worst one got halfway to the next town (ie miles away) the first time he tried to find my house.

amazonia

If you use Google, Apple Maps or Waze on your phone and they are persistently taking you to the wrong place then you can report the error. Preferably do it when you're in the right location so that you can drop a pin. I had this with our town centre office that Apple and Waze were taking clients round the corner so that they missed the entrance to our car park. 10 minutes of fiddling around on the apps resolved the problem and it the apps updated a couple of days later.

The sign on our garden wall, at eye height has the name of our road and the number in clear letters about 4 inches high. It is lit at night. Drivers regularly thank us for this.

Many of these drivers are on piece rates, or if an employee ,have to do a set number of deliveries in a day, regardless of how long it takes. I think that many drivers are expected to do 100 deliveries a day or more, that is roughly one every 5 minutes. Think about it.

If you use Google, Apple Maps or Waze on your phone and they are persistently taking you to the wrong place then you can report the error. Preferably do it when you're in the right location so that you can drop a pin. I had this with our town centre office that Apple and Waze were taking clients round the corner so that they missed the entrance to our car park. 10 minutes of fiddling around on the apps resolved the problem and it the apps updated a couple of days later.

Clearly I wasn’t there and I don’t know what tone of voice he was using but based on the words used, by both of you, I would say neither of you should take offense.

FranP

Our small town fb group is full of "is this yours" pictures of parcels outside a house, where the intended recipient has been told it was delivered, and they have no idea where it is. We do not seem to have the same problem (touch wood), but Google and satnav both insist that we live in the street behind.

Same here and it has happened to me - I was texted a picture of an unknown front door and told my parcel had been delivered.
We also had very many deliveries and people (district nurse, ambulance etc!) calling for a similar address nearby, hopefully that issue has now been resolved.

FranP

Our small town fb group is full of "is this yours" pictures of parcels outside a house, where the intended recipient has been told it was delivered, and they have no idea where it is. We do not seem to have the same problem (touch wood), but Google and satnav both insist that we live in the street behind.

We get that one too and I don't think anyone else is getting my parcels - but I've certainly had to reunite parcel and owner a couple of times myself (as they turned up at my door). By now - if I get a wrong delivery...I put up a notice myself about it on a local FB page....though I've yet to figure out how to convey the message "Please fetch it promptly" - as I've had people a two minute walk away take their time to fetch it whilst I hung around waiting for them. All suggestions welcome as to a suitable way to phrase "I've been kind enough to put out a message to find you - so don't leave me waiting around...fetch it right now or some other convenient arrangement for me - not "whenever whenever sometime" to suit you".

Goodness knows I sympathise with deliverers trying to leave anything here. I think it's a West Wales thing - but certainly happens in the town I'm in that there are groups of streets near each other all with the same name as each other!! It's beyond me why that is the case - but it seems to be that when those several streets have been built the builder refers to them as "x estate" and then puts that as a streetname on every one of those streets in that little mini estate.

I've had so many visitors get lost en route to my house for the first few years I was here that I learnt what were the best possible directions to the foot I could give anyone (making it the least likely they'd get lost) and I explained to every personal visitor/delivery firm I could the gist of the wierd system here. At the least I had/still have to explain to them that my road does have a name and what it is and that, where they are looking for the road name I've given them they will see a plaque giving housenames instead (which I think they seem to remember because I tell them why I think the plaque is wrongly done and that one house - ie mine - has changed name since I bought it). They're probably telling themselves "Oh yes - a group of Welsh housenames instead of the road name and one of those names on the plaque is wrong - it's English now".

By the time the firm or friend concerned has had it explained why it's such a mess-up they obviously figure out their own ways through the lack of logic that got used. I think the delivery firms may now finally be using that "What3words" app or the like - and I swear that was probably invented in this area. They tell me there are houses even more difficult to find - as they haven't got either a number or a name up anywhere and at least mine has got a name (albeit different to the one on the road sign).

It's a sight more logical than it used to be - when I could direct half the town to my house by them saying "OoooH.....you live next door to x.....oooh!". Yep X was a right nuisance who knew half the town...

Sueinkent

How rude. I have never and will never use a satnav. I’m convinced they lower your IQ by at least 20 points. Present company excepted.

I just hope you are never far from home when your DH is taken seriously ill and the ambulance is taking him to the nearest A&E , which is 55 miles away, leaving you to make your own way to the hospital over many miles of country roads with only a post code to guide you. Sure, I first checked it out on my road atlas, but after that I used my satnav to negotiate my way through road diversions, cross roads without signposts, plus, of course, all roads going to one place only - and that a place you wanted to avoid.

Sat nav? Mine guides me wonderfully well on all manner of journies, until I turn into the road where I live! It then tells me to turn right immediately! I don’t,I stay on my road as I live at the very top, but all the way up I am being told to do a U turn if possible, even as I Drive into my garage, every time, without fail!

How rude. I have never and will never use a satnav. I’m convinced they lower your IQ by at least 20 points. Present company excepted.

Our small town fb group is full of "is this yours" pictures of parcels outside a house, where the intended recipient has been told it was delivered, and they have no idea where it is. We do not seem to have the same problem (touch wood), but Google and satnav both insist that we live in the street behind.

One of these fine days, the evening news will feature a video clip of ohe of those mega-monster trucks driving right over Beachy Head and the voice-over will say "........the driver - who miraculously had only minor injuries - said that he was only following directions according to his Sat-Nav........."

Barbadosbelle - wasn't it awful on Friday?

I remember being in a horrendous queue in this city when an HGV, the word was that the driver was following SatNav, was sent on detour that involved an inappropriate bridge built long before SatNavs were thought of, & caused absolute havoc whilst he was trying to reverse back from the approach. (in v heavy traffic as the city was grid-locked that day too).

I was stuck on a mini-roundabout for 2 hours, crying (I had 3 boys to pick up from after-school activity) with shoppers & dogwalkers passing by oblivious.Would have given everything I had for a mobile phone.
SatNavs have marginally more commonsense these days.

flappergirl

If a strange man knocked at my door I'm afraid I wouldn't answer.

I agree, and take your point, but I have 2 front doors, with noisy dog behind the inner one and me peering out behind the alf-opened outer one. They're both solid wood, no glass, so I can't see who's there until I open it

If a strange man knocked at my door I'm afraid I wouldn't answer.

Sat Navs? mine will not accept my address tells me I'm home and insists I live in my neighbours house even though I'm parked on my own drive. [confused}

My friend moved to number 15. When I used the satnav I've worked out, I have to put in number 12 ot it will take me to a completely different road, 2 streets away from her house.

Where i live the houses behind me have the same sat nav address as mine but a different road name. l am often having deliveries, takeaways, parcels and once even a motor bike delivered to me!! The problem here is not the sat nav but the inability of the delivery person to look at the address they are going to and checking that they are on the correct road !!

We live in a close with another close off it. The number of callers, parcels and other deliveries we get for the same number in the other close is ridiculous.
Hardly anyone apologises, I feel like setting our noisy dog on them but sadly she would only lick them !!

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Re - Sat-Navs

Last Friday afternoon there was a 'Police Led Incident' that closed part of the M5 for many hours. Cars were pouring into the City to try and get to their destination.

We live in a (usually) quiet suburb about 8/10-miles from the motorway.

Our house is in a long crescent of about 20 detached houses. The only traffic we get is the owners, their visitors or deliveries - most of the time we can go hours without seeing a vehicle.

Last Friday though was different. SatNavs were guiding drivers to the Hill that our crescent comes off of. It was chock-a-block so the SatNavs, to help (!!), were then telling the drivers to detour to our crescent obviously oblivious to the fact that there aren't any roads off of the crescent and so the only exit would be back onto the Hill they'd had just come off of!!

Cars and vans would be outside of our drive for about 15-minutes or more before moving a few feet and the vehicle behind taking its place.

This lasted from (c) 2:00pm to after 6:00pm. So many red angry faces to be seen. It took our neighbour over 2-hours to get home from a shopping trip that usually takes under half-an-hour.

A frustration for us was that many bored passengers, probably with back ache, would get out of their cars and tootle up our drive to stretch their legs. So our RING was continually ringing. But at least we could watch them and the chaos on our phones whilst in the warm and comfort of our sofa in the Drawing-Room.

Really Sat-Navs cannot be relied upon.
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Be careful - that can be a ruse to make sure no-one is home before breaking in. "Is so-and-so in?" is an easy way to avoid suspicion. Home burglary with residents present is a more serious offence. It's your home - you're under no obligation to open the door.

Reminds me of the times someone rings the wrong number and expects you too apologise for being the wrong person.

Last week, driving along a road in town, 20mph?, a stationary car on the other side of the road waiting to turn right. Suddenly, an electric wheelchair who'd been invisible behind the stationary car, crosses the road. She'd been unsighted by me, and presumably, she couldn't see me. I slammed on my brakes, pleased to know my reactions were better than I realised.
She looked at me, no acknowledgement for not killing her. Now that's ungrateful!

Dontcallmelove

I now challenge bad manners/rudeness, much to my husband’s embarrassment! I gave way to a woman in the supermarket who just dithered about. As she passed me she didn’t acknowledge me, although it was obvious that I had moved to let her through, then waited for her, so I cheerily said “you’re welcome “. She then shouted at me that she had said thank you. I said, and I said “you’re welcome “. That was it, she ranted at me that she had thanked me and I was being rude! As I walked away, I called back “methinks you doth protest too much”. I clearly hit a raw nerve, maybe others have told her she’s rude?

This breed of entitlees appear to be infiltrating the country! I’ve just met three in Tesco, male and female, one of which worked there!