Before Satnavs in cars we had .......

Wibbles
Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,541 Championing
in Transport and travel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qqnHtH1RAs

Can you imagine trying to get from A to B - Using a cassette ?

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  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,125 Connected

    Before "God" invented Satnavs, people, including most Taxi drivers, knew their way around their Home City or Town like the backs of their hands and could get almost anywhere, nowadays, if a place doesn't instantly appear on the Satnav, they can't find it.

    Uber drivers are THE worst for that, including Uber Eats delivery drivers, back when I lived in a HA Flat on Netherthorpe, I used to order stuff in when I couldn't be bothered to cook for tea, the amount of times the delivery bloke either got lost or didn't turn up AT ALL was ridiculous, all because the Flats didn't come up on the majority of Satnavs.

    The irony is, I lived round the corner from a big Tesco so I could've gone shopping…

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,779 Online Community Team

    I didn't know these existed! Did they catch on?

    I remember using maps, or written down instructions. Sat navs make everything so easy now.

  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 2,028 Championing

    Before satnavs we had…

    Men that wouldn't ask for directions so inevitably we'd get lost and arrived at said destination later than planned 😜

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,311 Championing
    edited June 3

    I thought I knew a lot about motoring but didn't know they existed

    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129495#Comment_1129495

    Not if you heard the resignation in the voice of Google Maps … I swear I hear him sigh, and think … that's 5 minutes of our lives we're both not getting back

    It bugs me I get lost with a sat-nav … but back in the day, it was look at an atlas, write down junction numbers, a few roads to get to an estate to look at a car. Or whatever And hardly any mistakes.

    Now whenever we go to a city we always see new places we'll never see again, because apparently I don't listen … but when he says things like, keep left, bear right … it does not compute in my brain 😶

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,779 Online Community Team

    Oh yeah I can still get lost with a sat nav @WelshBlue. Sometimes the way it words things is very confusing, and if you're on a newly made road you've got no chance. I miss using a real map - it made it more of an adventure. I remember looking up directions online and writing them down, using a circle and a number to denote a roundabout and its exit!

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,125 Connected

    Also, some people blindly follow the Satnav because they don't know where they're going, and have been known to end up in Fields and alsorts!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,311 Championing

    Would much rather have one of those tapes than my daughter directing me around Cardiff.

    Right get in that lane … NOT THAT ONE … the left one. Follow that bus … which bus there's 3 of them. All the time hearing her eyes roll in her head and people in the back seat sniggering at me being terrified of getting a row and being a quivering mess

    … but at least I make new friends, always someone honking and waving at me. Nice people in Cardiff

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,818 Championing
    edited June 3
    Before Satnavs in cars we had .......

    …the wife in the front seat holding a map and giving you directions 😉

  • egiste2r
    egiste2r Posts: 22 Connected


    But ancient people navigated by the stars.

  • Ellie50
    Ellie50 Community Member Posts: 8 Listener

    I thought it was just near us that user delivery guys couldn't read road signs /names or their satnavs. I once spent 15 minutes on the phone trying to get a driver from where he was to us. Problem was, he didn' know where he was!

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