Buildings threatened by lorries using sat nav

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Wed 9 Apr 2008 20:46
Buildings threatened by lorries using sat nav - henry k
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7339319.stm
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Thu 10 Apr 2008 10:55
Buildings threatened by lorries using sat nav - Tron
Road signage.

tinyurl.com/3gty87

tinyurl.com/48om7v

How many times have you been looking for somewhere to have driven passed it many times all because one minor road sign is either out of date, covered by another, faded & too old to be read, is covered in moss or plain just missing?

How many road signs near you are just too difficult to follow because of their numbers (as in too many being situated near each other) or because there is just to much other information or obstacles blocking you seeing them easily?
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Thu 10 Apr 2008 11:26
Buildings threatened by lorries using sat nav - boxsterboy
This is a load of old tosh.

The buildings are not being threatened by 'lorries using sat nav'. They are however being threathened by stupid brain-dead lorry drivers driving down inappropriate roads, or ignoring width/load restrictions.

There is nothing to stop drivers using the same route having read a road atlas, but you never see stories in the press headed 'Buildings threatened by lorries using road atlases'

Edited by boxsterboy on 10/04/2008 at 11:27

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Thu 10 Apr 2008 12:04
Buildings threatened by lorries using sat nav - nick
True, but they wouldn't consider the inappropriate roads if the satnav wasn't telling to go down them.
But you're right, it's brain-dead drivers who can't read signs or use common sense. Perhaps there should be some sort if intelligence test before anyone is allowed to use a satnv? :-)
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Thu 10 Apr 2008 19:40
Buildings threatened by lorries using sat nav - gordonbennet
There should be an intelligence test before anyone is granted a licence, wrong maybe not quite that more like a common sense test, met a lot of very clever people with no common whatsoever.

You won't find any old school truck drivers using a sat nav, we can cause quite enough damage without one of those contraptions.

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Thu 10 Apr 2008 19:46
Buildings threatened by lorries using sat nav - oilrag
"met a lot of very clever people with no common whatsoever."

So have I GB ;)
I think Sat Nav adventures are good press really. Something to focus on when reporters can`t be sent out into the community to ( breathlessly) report snow `particles` are falling.

Regards ;)
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