Sat Navigation System
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US $867.80
Why It Would Be Foolish To Put Your Faith In A Sat Nav
Call me a traditionalist, but I have in car technology. It annoys me that they're everywhere these days, almost everyone I know has one of those little balck talking boxes affixed to their windscreen, I mean do we really need someone telling us how to get around when we've managed with maps for years? Sat Navs are a great piece of technology but they really do erode that vital skill we all once had called a 'sense of direction'. But I hear you ask 'why do we need a sense of direction when we have a sat nav? So what do you do when your sat nav breaks?
Technology is great, it enhances our lives, makes our jobs easier, etc, but IT IS FALLABLE. It does go wrong from time to time. Nowhere is this more disastrous when you're trying to find your way around a complicated inner city road network and your Satellite Naviagtion goes kaput. All this time you've been relying on that soothing, kind Irish voice to steer you gently to your destination, and suddenly you're lost in a world that isn't overlaid with an easy to read graphical interface and lots of big yellow arrows.
So what do you do when your car accessories UK do wrong? Panic? Cry? Probably, if you have come to rely on them over the past few years. This is why I advocate using traditional methods such as maps to navigate. Of course a huge A2 map obscuring your windscreen is not ideal, but planning your journey and memorising the route is an invaluable asset in your orienteering arsenal that will ensure you arrive at your destination on time.
Sure, use your Cheap Garmin sat nav as a back up, but certainly don't rely on them. This really is true only any piece of tech that has become ingrained in our daily lives. Just look at the way Word auto-corrects our spellings, this has argubaly made us worse spellers when we are suddenly left without the feature.
What is the best Sat navigation system you can buy and why?
I have heard good and bad in most models. I live in Spain so it has to include Spain.
I use a Tom Tom GO 700. It came with all the maps for Western Europe as standard.
Tom Tom make the best after market sat nav systems, and so for that they are the most expensive. However they are easy to use and i've never had a problem. I'm an HGV driver so mine does alot of mileage and has saved my behind countless times. Also had no problems using it in France earlier this year...
Tom Tom have now upgraded all their stand-alone units so you'd have to look had to find the unit i have in the shops. I know a few people who have the Tom Tom Navigator on their PDA and it's exactly the same to use, I have no need for a PDA so prefer the easier to manage stand-alone unit.
Mio C620: Sat-nav with 3D sights (Cnet)
The Mio C620 is a slim widescreen satellite-navigation system with a
difference -- you can see certain famous tourist sights in 3D, such as Big Ben
and the Eiffel tower
Europe's Galileo Satellite Navigation System Moves Forward
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