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

Wibbles
Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,726 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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  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 4,887 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: 2,095 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: 1,423 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: 4,887 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!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,423 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: 6,313 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: 193 Connected


    But ancient people navigated by the stars.

  • Ellie50
    Ellie50 Community Member Posts: 12 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!

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Community Member Posts: 3,726 Championing
    edited June 6
    https://youtube.com/shorts/kNXF2rGIq8E?feature=share
  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,890 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1130186#Comment_1130186

    You should try it, being in a strange city, looking through an A to Z book. Great, you can see X street, but how to get there from 3 pages back, when you've never been there before. I did multi drop before sat navs, it was a nightmare.

  • Johnboy412000
    Johnboy412000 Community Member Posts: 692 Empowering

    Before Sat Navs and the Internet I was a Dab hand at plotting a route using a book of Maps lol. Sometimes got lost and the old wind the window down and ask a passer by for directions lol.

  • Johnboy412000
    Johnboy412000 Community Member Posts: 692 Empowering

    Dad always tried that way and quite often it would be come on for god sake where to next lol. It nearly was a recipe for divorce lol.

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