New York Times Discovers SatNav Errors

News of the phenomenon spreads to a country where strangely little is heard of it -- presumably because the roads are so big and the network so geometric that it is a novel phenomenon.

It's certainly true that satnav errors are essentally a characteristic of small rural roads (or roads taht turn out to be paths or fords...).

“We’ve heard some very hilarious stories where people just blindly follow the sat nav instructions,” said Vince Yearley, a spokesman for the Institute of Advanced Motorists, using British shorthand for “satellite navigation.” “Like if the sat nav says, ‘Drive into this muddy field,’ they think, ‘That’s weird,’ but they do it anyway.”

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