Foreign Perspectives

Not so long ago GPS was very much a luxury item but the prices have dropped like a stone in recent years and sales have, of course, leapt upwards.

However, in a number of areas you still need some common sense to make best use of them and that’s something that a lot of people forget.

For example, we always tell people to switch off or ignore their GPS once they get on the final stretch of motorway on their way to us. Why? Well, because all the GPS devices are very consistent in making that final 20 minute drive a 2 hour marathon simply because they insist on people going down the “best” route despite the shortest and quickest route being by way of a different motorway exit.

Although we always tell people that, they always ignore us. The funny thing is that they almost always call to say that they’re within 30 minutes and I reinforce our earlier advice about ignoring the GPS. Over two hours later they arrive as the GPS has told them that they’ve come off at the wrong exit, to go back on the motorway and head north, come off again and turn round and then to drive straight past the exit we told them to get off at. Crazy, or what?

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