The death of the SatNav?

[SueEllen]

Smart phone screen with Satnav




Smart phone screen with an incoming call:



Whose arse would you be driving up now?

My earlier post pointed out you can disallow incoming calls when driving.

You can either do all of them or only allow priority calls through.

[FatLazyContractor]

My earlier post pointed out you can disallow incoming calls when driving.

You can either do all of them or only allow priority calls through.

Yes, got that.

Chances of getting lost in a massive city, using a Satnav at a major junction and getting a priority call at that moment = Priceless!

Either use it as a Satnav with nothing incoming (based on comfort levels with the route) or use a proper Satnav and still have a phone.

HTH

[Halo Jones]

I have satnav built in the car & a separate TomTom that I use when driving a rental camper van in Europe.

Never really considered using phone & app as my concern would be the data charges / bad signal areas, I have only lost signal on the TT when underground .

[d000hg]

Wonder what smartphone users do when they are negotiating a tricky city and the phone rings at the wrong moment!

Use a decent app that handles this well? I'm sure some on iOS do this?

[MicrosoftBob]

I still use my Tom Toms, where I live phone signals are patchy and it's easy to get lost down all the country roads

I'd hate to be relying on my smart phone all the time

[xoggoth]

Don't travel enough to new places to need one anymore.

[quackhandle]

I'm old school, before I go anywhere I used my A-Z and my brain, but I can see they are helpful for traffic jams in plotting ways around it. My folks got me one for Christmas, still not taken out of shrinkwrap yet.

I was at a Tesla showroom last weekend and that thing has a bloody huge screen connected to t'interweb, but when you can't connect it also has a backup sat-nag. (Nothing at all in the handbrake area that was odd.)

qh

[tomtomagain]

I'd hate to be relying on my smart phone all the time

To late for that! Smartphones will be replacing your credit/debit cards next.

Which means if you lose your phone. You won't be able to call for help, won't have any money and won't know where you are!

[GlenW]

won't have any money and won't know where you are!

So a permie then?

[rl4engc]

Nothing at all in the handbrake area that was odd.)
qh

"Software Handbrake" - How is this progress? (And I'm a Softie). True story about my mate and his 14 plate Vauxhall Insignia lease car and it's software handbrake, he was on a site visit, a few minutes later one of the bosses pats him on the shoulder:

Boss: Is that your Vauxhall Insignia outside?
Mate: Yes, why, is it blocking someone in?
Boss: No, it's rolled down the hill and hit one of our wagons.

Turns out (though Vauxhall denied it) there's a known software fault in that it randomly decides to let the brakes off.

Call me old fashined, but I think I'll stick with a cable and ratchet mechanism.