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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Rob Waugh
Last updated at 7:33 AM on 16th February 2012
Misleading satnavs have caused more than £200 million worth of damage to cars in the past 12 months, it was revealed today.
As many as 83% of satnav users have been misled by their system, a survey by Confused.com found.
Accidents caused by drivers going the wrong way have led to damage totalling £203 million in the past year, the poll also showed.
Accidents caused by misdirected motorists have cost British drivers £200 million, a survey has revealed
Of those led astray, 52% ended up screaming at their devices, while 68% have ended up doing longer journeys and clocking up unnecessary miles.
The poll of 2,000 drivers also revealed that women were more likely than men to get angry with their satnav, with drivers in the East Midlands exhibiting the most rage.
Those happiest with their satnavs were from Northern Ireland, while drivers in Scotland appeared to be the ones most misled by their devices.
The worst spot for sat nav anger was the Welsh city of Aberystwyth, where 75% of drivers admitted to regularly losing their tamper with their device.
Gareth Kloet, head of car insurance at Confused.com, said: ‘Our research has shown that the satnav is not always the blessing it was once hailed to be and, increasingly, motorists appear to be citing the device as a source of frustration and danger.’
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Make a U-turn NOW. How often do I hear this driving in the middle of a highway…… Grrrrrrrr
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I’ve had a SatNav for years and it has successfully taken me to where I want all over Great Britain and Europe. Never mind, an insurance company gets a free advert based on unreliable statistics.
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Sat Navs are great but common sense is required to use them.
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This just shows, how many stupid drivers are on the road. Anyone who has an accident ’caused by following a satnav’ ?, should have to retake their driving test, before they’re allowed drive on the roads again. As, a bad workman, blames his tools, so a bad driver blames his satnav!
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My satnav has told me to do silly things – it even had me sit outside a house all day waiting for the owner to come home only to find it was the wrong house (number post code though were right – but it was the street behind I needed the guy I was meeting had his phone off) – but when it has told me to turn into dead ends / down country lanes I’ve simply ignored it and let it recalculate – it’s really easy to do – on the other hand it has save me a fortune in time money is a lot safer than trying read maps while driving and lets face it when maps are used few people pull over and stop everytime they want to check the map – they normally glance at it on the passenger seat or sometimes hold it on the steering wheel and those few who do stop read a map need a satnav as all that stopping and starting is costing LOTS of time money.
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I deliver cars all over the country for a living and clock up thousands of miles a month – I have a sat nav and find it invaluable in strange cities, the people who have caused two hundred million pounds worth of damage to vehicles must be total idiots. Sat navs are not 100 per cent perfect but common sense must prevail. What did people do before sat navs – not go out in the car anywhere or drive aimlessly around in circles!!!!
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A Sat Nav is a guide for the wise and a rule book for idiots!
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I’m not quite sure I believe the damage costs but how much fuel have they saved by stopping people driving around in circles looking for their destinations?
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I saw a van driver delivering the AZ of london map books last week, he was using Sat Nav, maybe he can’t trust his own maps, or maybe SatNav’s are quicker.
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A sat-nav is just a handy guide, you don’t have to obey it slavishly. A little common sense and some forward planning comes in handy, plus a little geographical knowledge and spatial awareness, both of which seem to be lacking these days.
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