Men more likely to overrule satnavs than women

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LONDON (Reuters) – Men are more likely to ignore directions given by their satellite navigation systems than women, a survey has found, confirming the old stereotype that men hate asking for directions.
While 83 percent of male drivers regularly rebel against their sat navs, less than three-quarters of women disobey the devices which UK drivers branded as "untrustworthy" and "inaccurate" in the study by insurance retailer Swinton.
"A sat nav should aid your own navigational abilities rather than replace them," said Steve Chelton, Insurance Development Manager at Swinton, which found drivers were often right to mistrust the global positioning systems.

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1. Men are more likely to

get completely and totally lost on vacation and FINALLY stop at a gas station only to send their wife inside to ask directions also. (I have been the wife in that situation, LOL).

[pansypoo53219]

2. i get AAA maps and

lately have played on google earth. i have never ever used a machine. i also ignore trip tiks to make my own map quests. worked almost right on a trip from milwaukee to sheboygan close as i could get to lake michigan. worked quite well.

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. reuters: Men more likely to shrug off driving-related stereotypes than women. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

5. +1000

[Xithras]

4. I have found that I'm right more often than my satnav is.

It can be useful when I'm finding my way around a completely new area, but I've noticed that satnav's tend to fare poorly overall when trying to plot the quickest route. They only occasionally get the roads wrong (I once had one tell me to STOP in the middle of a freeway because I'd "reached my destination"), but they OFTEN plot long, disingenuous routes. The satnav route from my office to my house after work, for example, takes 30 minutes to drive, and tries to limit me to freeways and main streets. It actually takes me half that time to get home, taking country roads and secondary streets. They're all on the map, but the satnav doesn't like them.

[Arugula Latte]

6. And some, like Michael Scott, blindly follow them ...