GPS systems

You know, I feel the same way about it. Although, they probably will drop the prices.

Sat Nav saved my life! - December 26th 2006 4 friends and I decided to go on a Road Trip in my motor home. We started off in the UK and we were travelling to the French Alpes. Sounds great doesn't it!!! 1am - 8 Hours of driving i decided to hand over the rain to my co-pilot and get some sleep. 2am - Find myself being woke up by the sound of the engine getting slower and slower!!! Yes the doughnut had run out of Diesel!!! So picture this. I was on a French Motorway at 2am in the morning with signs saying 75km to the next petrol station. The motor home was only just small enough to fit on the hard shoulder (breakdown Lane)and lorries were coming towards me at 60mph. Lucky we had TOM TOM (GPS) which was our saving grace!!! We asked the GPS where the nearest petrol station was off route and it gave us a list of 4 to choose from and all we had to do was walk in the direction that the GPS pointed us in. If it was not for the GPS we could hae been hit by a lorry, taken of by the police for not having florescent jackets (which we did not know was the law till we got back) a towing charge of about €400's and a mechanic's bill of about €300 for the diesel pump. The popularity of the Sat Nave (GPS) has inceased a huge amount in the UK, But I don't think that they will out sell the mobile phone as you can now buy a SAT NAV chip for you mobile phone. So why have 2 gadgets when you can have 1 that does the lot???

I used to get lost a lot when driving. Then I decided to write my direction in large print on index cards and post on my dash. I never missed an exit after that. My daughter-in-law laughed at me until one day she was driving north from Florida and didn't have a map. She found my index cards and they brought her home. So it worked for her, too. I don't do a lot of cross country driving now so it isn't an issue now.