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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Not Nav

The Gorse Fox made a mistake.

Yes, it's hard to believe, but it's true.

He entered the address in Buckingham into the car's Sat Nav. It calculated routes and suggested one that looked 15 miles shorter than the others. The high-level view looked ok. Gorse Fox didn't, however, failed to check the lower-level detail... and set off with the Silver Vixen to visit her family. The Sat Nav guided us north via every country lane it could find all the way to Guildford taking at least twice as long as it would have if GF had driven his normal route. Then the route started to make sense until, at Beaconsfield, it again diverted us across country. By the time we finally got Buckingham the journey had taken 3 hours instead of the expected two and a quarter.

No such mistake was made on the route home. The route GF chose may have been 14 miles longer, but it only took 2 hours - though there may have one or two occasions where GF may have inadvertently exceeded the odd speed limit.

1 comment:

The Gray Monk said...

Sounds like the deviation I experienced when travelling from the west country recently to the M25. Mind you, it was a nice little scenic loop, but as I had a plane to catch, I didn't really need to see it...