Liverpool Law Courts at midday at the weekend haha.
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That’s when sat nav is useful absolutely. I can’t think of many times I have had to get somewhere important on time most drives are casual and on my time so always fun.
Sat nav is great when in a city and it’s night so it’s easy to miss signs. Or coming back from a gig late and you just don’t want to have to think.
I use Satnav’s cause live time data is so bloody handy. I don’t know how many times I’ve driven to see my mate in Oxford and avoided 30 min delays due to traffic because it’s pinged up and said ‘take this road, mukka, you’ll be sound’.
My sense of direction is pretty good so even on certain journeys I chuck it on just as a back up for that alone.
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I use a sat nav on routes I know like the back of my hand all the time.
In fact, it’s even more useful on routes you know well so that you know when and where you can go back roads to avoid bits you know will be shit (Camarthen…I’m looking at you).
Unless you have a mate with a helicopter who can lob messages to you somehow you will get stuck in shit when you don’t need to.
I’ll use sat nav/ gps at sea or have done on expeditions, obviously it’s invaluable in those situations.
I have a different pace of life to most of you. No job, no kids, no responsibilities and therefore no real need to be anywhere at any specific time for the most part. I know the South coast like the back of my hand and rarely leave it. I don’t need the distraction of some shit going on on a screen in my peripheral vision and an intrusive voice telling me what to do - I know where I’m going, stfu!
I haven’t been into to a city of any sort for at least twenty years. I dislike motorway driving and will always opt to take ‘the old roads’ or back roads anyway even though it adds time to a journey. If I have to travel any real distance then I’ll leave in the early hours and try to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. If I do, on the very rare occasion, for whatever reason, get lost or miss a turning, so what? I have time, I might get to see something interesting or just learn a lesson for next time. In fact, I enjoy getting lost.
I’m generally travelling between our main house and a couple of other bolt holes or my folks’ or the in-laws. Most of the time I’m just messing about at a beach somewhere. I have no time for sat nav in my life 
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Dunno but my Dad doesn’t need one. Never seen him get lost ever. Dadnav
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Using the stars to navigate at night is hardcore, even by my Dad’s standards!
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Getting heavy ‘The Dude’ vibes from this post
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Yeah, I’m not busting out a sextant and doing celestial navigation per se. Just keeping the moon or certain stars or, during the day, the sun on one side of me so I know which direction I’m heading in and so I don’t zig zag or deviate too much from a straight A-B line. Of course I’m not doing that on a daily basis, just if I’m lost.
It’s a tool that makes your life much easier. If you want to keep trying to mash nails into wood with a twig rather than use a hammer is entirely up to you I guess. I can’t really understand it myself but there we go.
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There is making life easier, which it does in many ways, and there is getting lazy and losing life skills. Lots of people would rather pay and watch someone mash a nail into wood than have a go themselves.
Not knowing something and then through experience, learning and then knowing for next time is a very good feeling.
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I don’t want to get into a thing about this but what is about sat navs that make you think you can’t learn a route?
You’re still paying attention to where you are when you’re driving.
If i used a sat nav to get somewhere I didn’t know once, I would have a pretty good go at doing it the second time without one.
I’m trying to get my head around what skills are being lost here.
A paper map is just a much, much less efficient way of navigating and can’t update you about upcoming shit down the road, mobile speed vans etc.
As I said, if you don’t want to use them that’s up to you but we have satellites that can triangulate your position on the earth to the nearest meter, get you the best possible route somewhere and give people on the other side of your journey a very accurate estimate time of arrival…why not use them apart from being a sort of pig headed luddite (soz @Scurbrampwoody )
No offence taken 
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I wasn’t having a go at you, i’m taking the piss, more people in general that don’t have basic life skills. Sat navs potentially take some skills away, it’s come up in many conversations and yes, many people have agreed that if they follow orders they don’t take in visual information and couldn’t tell you how they got to their destination and what direction, roads they have taken.
I do think that sat navs have their place, great life addition, just I prefer to look around and use signs like the old days. Feels like I have achieved something. I admit that driving is new to me though, been driving 3 years.
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I keep having to remind my dad to do this, instead of relying strictly on sat nav when we go to gigs and that. It’s like how people miss the one that tells you what lane you need to be when getting into Swansea via Fabian Way, then cram into the third lane last min. If they just looked earlier they would’ve seen the bit that says ‘GET IN LANE’.
Funny that, given that his generation would rely on that and 'ye old maps, like.
Most satnavs will tell you to get in the correct lane well in time. Mine does, in Moira Stuart’s voice. And the next time you do that journey, you remember to do it yourself. God bless sat nav and God bless Moira Stuart.
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So does mine but I will be the last fucker to filter in. People round here drive like they have blinkers on.
Amen my brother.
I tried to hack my TomTom so it had Homer Simpson’s voice on it, but it didn’t work and I bricked it. Still think I got 50 quid for it on eBay as well.
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Fuck Moira.
It was her voice who told me we’d voted to leave the EU when I woke up after going to bed hearing Remain had probably won comfortably.
Never forgiven her.
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