I'm a plan, route notes and know where I am for out of town journeys in the UK and all over Europe, where my dad used to do rallying and time trialing, so I had to learn, as a child, to read a map and give a running commentary to exactly where we were, call the road corners, hills, and notable features like rivers, bridges, churches etc. Any hold ups I had to find alternative routes and then call those. I loved it, which is why I say to my wife as long as I've got a map and compass I can navigate anywhere in the world.
But in town and cities you don't have the time, and for me the spare brain capacity to navigate and drive at the same time, so Sat Navs are mostly great, so concentrating on the driving with the Sat Nav doing the navigating is so much easier, more accurate and safer, providing it knows where it is going and it has the latest route changes, otherwise you can end up going in circles. It hasn't happened to me with road changes in Reading at all, heading for Caversham, I didn't get directed and end up in Reading North East at all three times, oh no,
I didn't resort to my paper street maps at all to arrive late at the meeting.
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Topic: Sat Nav- a recent convert! (Read 2981 times)