Stupid Driver . . . or stupid journalist

Gday
That reads "MINE"
mURRAY

Hard to believe anybody would drive over a median strip.

"Our 'Road Angel' is one of the offenders that makes the mistake. "

. . . .another "Road Angel" victim.

There are numerous places on majpr roads (Pacific Hwy, Bells Rd) where it will tell you to do a Uturn or Left turn and go on a 10 km detour off the obvious straight-ahead route - you drive on a few hundred metres and it suddenly realises you can drive straight ahead.

Road navigators are supposed to save fuel - the Road Angel wastes fuel if you believe its directions.

Shaker I guess when the Navigator tells you to turn in 50 metres the driver at that moment is concentrating solely on the turn, they can see where they need to go & don't wont to get off the route. We see similar driving behaviour when temporarily closing streets for work. The driver can see where he needs to go & ignores all the signage & cones to make the turn. Human nature I guess :-)

Mike our Road Angel was a trial work unit which now sits collecting dust. It made shocking mistakes like getting you into the right lane coming out of the City Link Tunnel to make the turn over the Bolte Bridge when the on ramp is 5 lanes over on the left. You don't think that error costs some time :-)
Even the Tom Tom unit we had a go of was shocking in the rural areas not recognizing major freeway overpass's then simply running out of roads leaving town. Have stopped on several occasions to give directions to those lost with navigators here in the country. Will take another 5 years of feedback & updates to get it close to accurate.
Cheers Craig............

I had CoPilot 4.5 and found that it just didn't have the chronic errors on major roads that much later versions of the Sensis database has.

But the Copilot used the Mapinfo Database which unfortunately seems to have disappeared.

If Copilot didn't have such absurd upgrade prices I would still be using it.