GPS Question
Posted: Thu 10 April, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Driving, Thoughts, Weirdness 7 Comments »A question for those of you who have a GPS system.
Where do you put it in the car?
By which I mean where on the windscreen, of course.
When I’m using it, the GPS/Satnav goes down on the bottom right-hand corner of the window. There I can see it without having to take my eyes too far off the road, and it doesn’t obstruct my view. To me that makes sense.
However, I notice that a lot of people seem to put the SatNav in the bottom middle of the windscreen, directly above the centre console of the dashboard. To me this just seems like a really awkward place, causing you to move your eyes right away from the road, and also blocking the view of a certain bit of road.
So I’m just wondering what other people who read this do.
mine is in the bottom right side of the window as its easy to look at, when ive seen othe people with them they even on the top of the window and thats just daft
In the middle at the bottom over the dashboard – because the sodding thing keeps falling off and at least there the dashboard catches it and the passenger can stick it back on for you.
Middle bottom. It becomes second-nature to glance there and, after a bit, it’s just part of the all-round checks one makes. If you have it bottom right you could tend to swerve into the centre of the road.
Have had sat nav since 2004 and recently bought another – the new TomTom’s quality is crap compared to the original’s (sound, size, screen, stickiness onto windscreen all dreadful). But, I paid only a third for it cf what I originally paid…
Having been in vehicles with all sorts of sat navs, TomTom are still the best IMHO.
Thinking a bit more – I think the optimal position depends a lot on the make of your car and the position/angle/depth of the windscreen.
Mine is usually in the boot.
As in, I have a map, in the boot, and I usually know where I’m going having checked out the route beforehand.
We don’t need no Satnav!! It’s FUN getting lost…
Depeds on the car. Ideally I’d mount min (fnarr, fnarr) bottom right to avoid blocking any view of the road but in the rARshMobile that’s not possible (the windscreen’s too curved for any purchase).
While I agree with Gordon’s “It’s FUN getting lost” it’s even more fun to try to confuse the SatNav by instinctively knowing a better way – or laugh when it tries and fails to cope with “new” road layouts.
I’m with Gordon. (As in, I use maps over any sat-nav/GPS system – this isn’t a statement about my current whereabouts).