Rayner Pulled By West Yorks Police!

It’s no good, after six weeks and a thousand miles of testing I cannot keep quiet about this&;.. Talk Audio was sent a PND by a major company. It was a multimedia and pan-European device. However, it was flawed. Voice prompts came at funny times, sometimes late and sometimes plainly obfuscatory, there were hysterical issues with word order and pronunciation of places like ‘Bimmingham’ and ‘Chooch’ instead of Church Road and it had real problems keeping up with complex junctions.
One trip was to West Yorkshire to visit a much loved relative who is gravely ill, so we were not in a mood for jollity. The device directed me so badly, from one road and on to another and then straight back on, that I attracted the attention of one of her Majesty’s.
I have been a bad boy, I have sped, I have been banned three times on totting up (only ever for speeding offences) in my youth, making me the most recidivist and fastest driver on both Fast Car and Max Power.

But in over 25 years of tugs I have never EVER experienced this oneWhile the officer was chatting to me and doing the standard vehicle ‘No report lost or stolen’ he also ran a criminal check for outstanding warrants upon my ass. It took a half hour and was wholly-solely and only caused by combination of the still-awful Navteq mapping underlying most of our navigation systems (I asked a REALLY snotty question of the European Navteq guy regarding the error-strewn maps and their corrections at the Panasonic Strada do in Athens recently) and the truly poor application within this unit.
It would have got a grim review but in fairness to the company concerned who can thus go nameless (And DON’T NAG, ‘Cos I’m a clam on this one) the unit was withdrawn from UK use before I could type a word.
But if you think I’m going to waste the urge to use my new scanner&;&;here’s the stop form to prove it happened.

Onwards and upwards!