I was like that until I got my latest car, the sat nav is built in and I couldn't live without it now tbh.

awww Suzy.

Don't take away my fantasy!

It confuse me, I get lost a lot 

you  get lost with or without a sat nav?

Sorry Issy , even my dad (who always had about 4 or 5 AtoZs in his car) is a convert. We got him his own sat nav last Christmas.
It's so handy for going to an unfamiliar town (where everything revolves around a ring round and can get confusing). My kids also like tracking our movements and it keeps them quiet (sometimes)  

both  it distracts me and I've stopped using it before I kill someone 

We have Sat Nav built in and at first my OH was a convert. I loved it - it saved so many arguments and fraught journeys especially when travelling in France ....it used to be so relaxed.

However recently my OH has started to second guess the Sat Nav or try alternatives ....it's like he's in competition with it - it drives me mad TBH. I think he see's her (we call the Sat Nav Eloise) as a threat to his masculinity.

i work on a farm on a dead end track in the middle of nowhere and we have 3 or 4 people a week turn up because the sat nav sent them up there. it pays to check the route on a map.

hahahahaha. Our one doesn't have a name, but we might have a naming competition later. My toddlers will probably end up calling her (hubby prefers her!) Peppa or Makka Pakka.
We sometimes try to beat the sat nav too, but nothing beats the trick my dad taught us all those years ago....if you're stuck in traffic in London, follow the first black cab you see doing a sudden U Turn or left/right and sure enough all the rat runs will lead you near to a main route and escape from the grid lock 

i found that a sat nav was very useful in norfolk, otherwise i use a map.

Maps tend to block the windscreen, which can be a problem.

Mr Blizz also battles the sat nav.
We spent a good half an hour, recently, completely ignoring its advice, and ending up in the same place several times.
I had to shout at him to do what it bliddy well tells him to do!

I too don't have a sat nav and use Google maps. I go all over the place and I find the Google map ability to zoom in to street level so that I can actually see the house or whatever I am going to. This is particularly useful where the house I am going to in in a small village where there are no road names and the houses don't have numbers, just names.

I want a Sat Nav and it is on my Christmas list.  Although I will probably hate it when I get it.

You can't beat a good old Road Atlas 

A scat nav would take all the fun out of planning journeys IMO.

Dont have one ,but travelled in cars that have them and it drives me mad ,the woman telling you where to go .Turn left at the next junction.Travel 100 yards then take the junction on the right..STFU.

Unless you are with the emergency services, i really don't see the point of the bloody things

Use a map you lazy gits!!

Sat nav are a fantastic invention.  The amount of times I've got lost when it could have been avoided.  Just takes the stress out of driving.  Google maps and streetview are another tool to get a general overview of the journey and visualise landmarks but as my memory's a bit dodgy and my sense of direction even worse, it's nice to use a sat nav for the extra piece of mind.

Scab Nav if you were planning to visit Shabby. Shat nav if you were going to a Star Trek convention.

I do not have good spacial awareness and cannot deal with yards, metres etc... I am better with landmarks or knowing where I am going in advance. So if a sat nav told me to turn R in a 100 yards, I would be clueless!

I've had a tom tom 500 since it first came out about 5 years ago - I lurrrvvvee it. My only complaint is the woman in it is dead patronising and on a few occasions I've wanted to lamp one right on her nose, plus if you're in a traffic jam on the M25 and you turn off to get to where you're going through town she INSISTS you need to get back on the M25 again (cos she's a bit slow) - this goes on for about 15 minutes until she realises you are going a different way and then she redirects you. I've been known to be in the car alone and have full blown shouty arguments with the little box stuck to my windscreen

It's true that you become totally dependent on it though, I've lost count of the amount of times I've been to Birmingham and back and yet all I know is you need the M40 and M42 to get there - after that I'd be lost

I'm the same, but I just look at the map on the sat nav to tell me (the orange line is me). It's funny if I miss my turning cos she gets right narky and keeps telling me to turn around I'm waiting for the day where she just loses it and shouts 'OI YOU STUPID COW, I SAID TURN AROUND- ARE YOU BLEEDIN DEAF?'

*looks smug*

I drove to Birmingham a couple of weeks ago using my directions on a piece of paper and a road map. I did not get lost and I could do the journey again without anything next time cos I remembered the land marks


Sorry Karma..

Join the club ...............why do men do that? If you've got guidance on hand .........................why do they (men) think they know better? I sometimes wonder if we switched it to a male voice that he'd actually listen.

I do that too, and even then it's just for the final details of the (unknown) destination.
I seem to have my own inbuilt Sat Nav as I very rarely get lost.
What I will NOT ever do is type in the address and suffer the infernal witterings of Female Sat Nav Voice.  It's like having a back seat driver giving you earache.  So much so, that we now call it The Sat NAG.

Ooh, one question.  How the hell do people stupidly turn on to railway lines etc...?
Don't they engage their brains and SEE that it's not THAT turning?

OMG ...........that's amazing. I am the complete opposite. We have been together for 36 years ........we've been lost in the car endless times. When it comes to a decision should we go left or right ..................Im always convinced that I know and I'm always 100% wrong. It's got to the point where my husband asks me and then does the complete opposite. I think my brain works back to front.

I seem to have a photographic memory when it comes to getting around on the roads.
Dunno why or how - I just do.  I wouldn't care if I got lost or took a wrong turning....I guess I just like driving in general.

Except for when there's a Nissan Micra in front of me.

Last year I went to Appleby Gypsy fair, on the way out the police had blocked the road so the gypsies could race the horses. my sat nav brought me back to Appleby about six times, eventually I drove about eight miles in some direction I didn't know until my sat nav picked me up , got home eventually about three hours later than I should have.

Now you see ........I don't drive. I've taken two driving tests and failed miserably. I'm not a stupid person but ...................I'm a bit iffy with my left and right (on driving lessons used to felt tip an L and R on the relevant hands) not much cop on spatial awareness either. As for sense of direction ..................I'm completely hopeless. It's quite shameful really. I know that I'd be a disaster on the roads ...................it is inconvenient not driving but I think ...............my skills lie elsewhere.

Nightmare..!

If you can't/don't take to it then it's not worth the stress.

I'm very happy for you

i have a really good sense of direction. the only places i get lost in are milton keynes and bracknell.

I'm like Cosmo and once I've been somewhere will remember the way and where I am going even though I don't drive. For years it was me telling my husband where to go cos he was useless before he did the knowledge. He's good though he does have a sat nav...he hardly uses it only for jobs that take him out a long way or to check for traffic or where petrol garages are

Milton Keynes is a bad place.... I can get in all right... but never out..

I've just got back from Milton Keynes...   Pamela (our satnav) saved our lives.... poor thing had to say  "enter roundabout and take second exit" about a hundred times...  

we ignore her a lot though...   she seems to have a fascination for going to explore Maldon..  and the "recalculating" she says when we drive past the A12 exit is said with venom!

I don't have a satnav either - I don't even drive because I've got Flumpcabs (the OH) for that. I am a good map reader though.
Only time OH ever gets lost is when he ignores what I've told him. Although the Leeds one-way system had us both stumped.

I had an experience in Hemel the other day...
*shudders*

But I got out to tell the tale. Had I had a sat nav it would have blown up.
All those stupid roundabouts.

daughter had the map as back up.....  she was on a mission to out do the sat nav....  

it kinda got personal...  I ended up ignoring the satnav so she didn't feel I trusted it more than her!