Do you own a SatNav, or are planning on getting one?

[MOBIUS]

SatNavs seem to be all the rage here with everyone seemingly rushing out to buy one!

My question is: Have you got one, or are you planning to buy one; or do you still rely on a good old-fashioned map?

Feel free, also, to post your most entertaining stories about getting lost while driving...

[Asher]

I have a GPS device that uses bluetooth -- hooks up to my laptop and/or iPaq.

[Cort Haus]

Map + girlfriend to pick nice route with B roads and interestingly named villages to drive through.

[Cort Haus]

I hear stories about people that end up driving hundreds of miles thanks to a faulty sat-nav, when they were only going thirty miles in the first place. Numpties.

[Arrian]

No and no.

I love maps. Positively love them.

I have no particular issue with using a GPS or SatNav thingamagig, but I don't feel the need for them.

-Arrian

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Arrian
I love maps. Positively love them.

Me too.

Maps

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Arrian
No and no.

I love maps. Positively love them.

I have no particular issue with using a GPS or SatNav thingamagig, but I don't feel the need for them.

-Arrian

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Arrian
I love maps. Positively love them.

They're great to get a fire or barbeque started - go up like a dream!

[Arrian]

The fumes have clearly gone to your head.

-Arrian

[Zopperoni]

I usually drive domestic routes, which are either one-off or routine. I'm comfortable using just a map or remembering the directions from a website.
Sometimes, I blatantly rely on sense of direction

I would consider using satnav when traveling abroad with the car, to overcome language barriers and to have up-to-date traffic information.

The thing I've seen with people using satnav is that they become very reliant on it. They blindly trust the device and their sense of direction deteriorates.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Arrian
The fumes have clearly gone to your head.

-Arrian

Especially those maps of the USA! Is that as bad as flag burning?

[Cort Haus]

Visions of The Mobe cackling widly as he radically, subversively and wickedly sets fire to maps of the USA.

[MOBIUS]

MWUAHAHAHAHA!

Better not overdo it with the petrol (gasoline)...

[Dinner]

No, I don't own one and I likely won't be buying one soon. I know two people who own sat nav systems in their cars and they're both idiots who could get lost on their way from their room to their front door. Those things are really just eye candy and don't do much that a reasonably intelligent person couldn't do with a map. What more when the power goes out I will still have my map but those losers will be completely lost.

[MOBIUS]

But SatNavs are new technology. Whereas maps represent the past, but make good firelighters (especially American ones!)...