[Mgs] GPS/Nav in a MG - blind and deaf

[Barrie Robinson]

Folks,

I find six speeds just too many - It's like those razors that have 5 
blades.  I just imagine a Scottish warrior going into battle with a 
five bladed sword !!   But then I suppose if you have an inferior 
blade you need five to compensate.  If you have low power engine then 
you need more gears - viz- an 18 wheeler rig.





At 06:57 AM 7/8/2013 +1000, Murray Arundell wrote:
>In this case your friend's GPS is configured to avoid freeways etc.  in
>"settings" you can alter this to suit your preferences.  Technology will only
>work as well as its allowed to by the individual employing it.  Don't blame
>the technology if you are not prepared to learn it first.  In the case you've
>cited it's the same as driving a car with a six speed gearbox but only using
>four, then complaining that it doesn't go or uses too much .
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>Murray Arundell
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>Sent from my iPad
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>On 08/07/2013, at 0:02, Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins at ktc.com> wrote:
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> > I was to meet a friend at a VW dealership in San Antonio, in order to drive
>him home after he dropped off his bug for service.  We left Kerville at about
>the same time in the morning but he arrived at the dealership more than half
>an hour later than I did.  Turned out that he'd followed his GPS's advice
>which routed him away from the freeways and through city streets as soon as he
>got to San Antonio. The thing is, he knew the direct route but followed the
>GPS's advice because he "thought it might know a shortcut."  Go figure......
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> > On 7/6/2013 8:00 AM, PaulHunt73 wrote:
> >> Prat-Nav you mean?  Where you end up in the wrong town/county/country or a
>river "because the sat nav said so"?  The only time I used one, because my son
>in law happened to have one, it took me on a 40 mile detour south when I
>wanted to go north. When we did eventually start going north the motorway was
>closed because of an accident.  We managed to leave at a junction but the damn
>thing kept telling us to get back on the motorway.  At that point I ignored
>it.
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> >> PaulH.
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Regards

Barrie
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