Last night on the A1, a car overtook me at a slow differential speed, so I am confident about what I saw, because I had plenty of time to observe while I wound my jaw back up from my lap..
They'd stuck a large satnav display on the windscreen. It was at least a 7" screen, possibly bigger. It may have been a tablet PC.
This thing was in landscape orientation,
and was placed pretty-much centrally, below the rear-view mirror,
and was not in 'night mode'.
Let me run that past you again:
They'd got a great big rectangle of plastic stuck right in the middle of the windscreen of a Vauxhall Corsa (ie not, say, a lorry, so a significant portion of the windscreen was totally obscured).
This was at 11:10 pm on an unlit road, yet the thing was blaring out a full screen's-worth of white backlight into the driver's eyes (apart from a solitary vertical orange line depicting the A1).
How on earth is this not a ruddy great hazard?
And more's the point, in any case - how much satnav does anyone NEED on the A1 in Nottinghamshire?!?!
There was even a front-seat passenger who potentially could have read directions from a map...
...but presumably that must have been ruled-out because they were as totally clueless about concepts as fundamental as 'North' and 'South' as the driver must be.
Unbelievable.
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