MATT SAUNDERS
Testing, testing
‘Direction of travel’ nav display modes are fostering cartographical impotence
It’s time, comrades, for the uprising. Time for the overlooked and marginalised to rebalance the scales.
We’ve waited too long already. We must act – and we must do it on behalf of good, right-thinking, sensible drivers everywhere.
The scourge of the god-awful ‘direction of travel’ satellite navigation display mode has its boot on our throats; it can no longer be borne. It’s time to reclaim satellite navigation as a useful tool for those who can read a map. Those who do understand that Naughty Elephants Squirt Water, or they should Never Eat Shredded Wheat. Who do know roughly which way their bonnet is pointing and would simply like a system that makes it possible to keep it moving, and pointing that way, without getting snarled up in tailbacks, roadworks or provincial town centres.