Is sat-nav a pain for you too?
Post categories: Chirk, Hot Topics, Wrexham
| 08:38 UK time, Friday, 22 February 2008
The trouble with letting technology do your thinking is that it takes things quite literally. Ask a sat-nav to give you the most direct route and it will do just that - regardless of whether you're a Smart car or a 40ft truck.
And it seems more and more of us are getting into all types of scrapes.
Time and again Margaret says she has been on he receiving end when truck drivers - trying to shave miles or minutes off their journey - make the mistake of following their computer's advice - and end up driving by her farm on a single-track road in the tiny village of Halton, Chirk.
The latest waggon has been stuck since Wednesday, says BBC Local News who visited the scene last night after Margaret got in touch with us.
These cases are more common than you might think, according to computerworld.com which, only last week, listed a number of instances like the sat nav driver's car hit by train and drivers on edge over cliff route.
Here are some others:
Sat-navs 'damage 2000 bridges per year' - Telegraph.co.uk - 9 Feb 2008
Inaccurate sat nav 'problematic for motorists - Yes Insurance - 31 Jan 2008
Have you had any scrapes?
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same old story, I too have been sent up country lanes but wouldnt go any further and get stuck like some of these trucks!!we have a motor home but not too big, we were sent up a lane going somewhere and the sat nav took us up a lane which ended in a farm with no through road, how does it do that? it suppsed to take you the shortest way I know but a no through farm road, it looked pretty decent for a farm road but I didnt think it would take you up a no through road, there were no signs telling me that. lets hope they get a bit cleverer as time goes on?
The lorry was finally removed after three days: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/7259742.stm