Sat Navs are sometimes very unreliable but more importantly they NEED you to take your eyes off the road. Still they're legal. Mobile phones allow you to watch where you are going but they are ILLEGAL. It desn't add up to me. What do others think?
2006-10-26 08:51:30 · 13 answers · asked by deryckza 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
sat navs speak out the operation and they only have a display for setting it up and for the passenger
also try having a conversation o the phone when taking a drivers test it would be hard
2006-10-26 08:54:16 · answer #1 · answered by Bradley T 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sat navs have the facility to speak and tell you directions. If you need to tinker round with them then you should pull over to do so. If you need to glance at a sat nav screen it wouldnt be for as long as some pratts do to drive along texting on a mobile phone. That is why hands free mobiles are legal the same as sat navs are !
2006-10-26 08:56:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many satellite Nav systems have voice over directions. Meaning that you do not have to look at any screen, but simply listen to the voice instructing the driver where to turn etc. Mobile phones, when held to the ear, are illegal in some states while driving because it is 2 front issue. One, you're now driving with one hand (cause you're using the other to hold the phone) and two, because you're now focussed on something other than driving.
2006-10-26 08:57:24 · answer #3 · answered by GS79 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is not so much that you take your eyes of the road, it is the fact that with mobile phones you have to take your eyes of the road(however momentarily) AND let go of the wheel with one hand, that is why it is know law that you have to have a hands-free kit. It is untrue that you NEED to take your eyes of the road with a Sat Nav because most of them have audio directions.
2006-10-26 08:58:00 · answer #4 · answered by True_Brit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i attempted a satnav as quickly as, yet did no longer like it. i became doing a direction I knew and it became giving the main extraordinary training - 'prepare to coach perfect' on a highway - it could have meant get in the middle lane and don/t go out on the left. yet another became at a crossroads - 'turn 0.5 left' (??????!!). to date as mobiles flow, i became observed in the age the place you had to ask to apply the land line so have on no account felt the could spend all day phoning and texting. I even have pay as you flow and it quite is days between receiving texts or calls. recommendations you, have finally upgraded to a telephone with digital camera/radio so am having relaxing fooling around with it on the 2d!
2016-10-16 10:45:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this line of thought leads to - why not make rear view mirrors illegal, they require you to take your eyes off the road ahead!? Sat Navs prevent far more accidents than they cause as you will know if you have ever followed someone who is lost.
2006-10-29 18:45:25 · answer #6 · answered by driving_about 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sat nav enables you to follow it as most of them speak instructions to you. mobiles decrease your attention on the road and make you look like a right a*** at the wheel hence they were made illegal.
2006-10-26 08:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
With mobile phones you become involved in conversation which further compounds your distraction. Apparently its the talking that lessens your concentration on the road rather than taking your eyes off the road momentarily.
2006-10-26 08:58:23 · answer #8 · answered by tangle 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Being an owner of a G.P.S. they do not require you to take your eyes off the road. All the gps systems I am used to using actually talk to you. They tell you each and every turn to make, when to keep left or right.they tell you exactly how far your turn and when youare approaching it.They talk you to your destination.. That is true...
2006-10-26 09:05:27 · answer #9 · answered by driver1 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
u dont need to take your eyes off the road, just use the voice instructions, ihave for the past 15 months and had no bumps yet
2006-10-26 08:54:41 · answer #10 · answered by neil h 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋